Originally posted by Sabenth
WTF: This has to be the dumb end of the stick this one . I cant use i Tunes service not in the usa dont know if i can use the buy music site either but i know one thing i wont be using buy .com because to much as far as what i can and cant do with my music choice. i am planing on getting my first ever i pod in a couple of weeks time and its going to store everyting of my music life. i want to be able to put music on it not some digital Music rights law crap on it I DONT WANT TO GO TO LAW SCHOOL JUST SO I CAN LISTEN TO MUSIC.. A month is not a long time in the computing world what a dildo... I TUNES COMES ACROSS as been more pro this buy thing is well cant describe it i need special licnces i can get a car licence quicker ....
... DMR Is a good idea if you want people to keep using Kazza... be my guest...
I don't think, with that kind of eloquence, we need worry at all about you going to law school.
That aside, Buy.com's latest offering is certainly the dung heap that we all hoped it would be.
HOWEVER (and mark me, this is a BIG however),
Windows was also a rather large heap of dung. Yet it sold. And sold. And sold. And here we are, with 3.5% of the market's favorite operating system with, well, 3.5% of the market.
Does anyone else fear that buymusic.com could be the music service analog of the result of the OS wars?
If one can market rubbish well enough, he can sell it. Blum may be able to sell this stuff. The only plus here is that while Windows can get by at performing the minimum necessary tasks in an albeit buggy way, BuyMusic does not nearly accomplish everything that the music buyer would need or want. Moreover, from what everyone is saying, the prices are not nearly as competitive as one would imagine.
Here's another cheery fact. USA Today remarks that the iPod controls approximately 50% of the digital music player market. It would be fair to assume that that constitutes at least 33% Windows users. That would mean that at least 16.6% of the Windows market for buymusic.com is restricted from the service. And I daresay that that 16.6% is the most important...No, not because that cohort uses the best mp3 player (although it does), but because that cohort was willing to spend the MOST MONEY to purchase an mp3 player. It would be logical to predict that those Windows users who purchased iPods would also be most willing to spend money to buy music online.
Then in all likelihood, iTMS has nothing to worry about. But there is a not entirely unreasonable chance that there IS something to worry about. That is the chance that the mass market of easily-duped consumers will succumb to the foolish enticements of a high-volume marketing scheme. It is the chance that by repeatedly seeing BuyMusic.com's name more than that of iTMS, the lot of consumers will march like lemmings to a nonsensical DRM at an exorbitant price...
And if that happens, the only defense is to release iTMS for Windows fast and market it faster.
) is using the service.
