Apple to Launch Music Service?

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Apple to Launch Music Service?

Posted by michael on Tuesday March 4, 2003 @06:06AM from the pay-to-play dept.

discstickers writes "The San Jose Mercury News is running an article about an Apple music service that might be ready to launch next month. $.99 a song with the ability to burn to CD doesn't sound too bad."

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99c / track? by peterpi · 2003-03-04 06:10 · Score: 1, Funny

I can get them 99c cheaper on KaZaA.
... and that is why it will fail.
1. Re:99c / track? by milktoastman · 2003-03-04 06:16 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  However, now that you can get a track for 99 cents, you don't have the excuse that the Recording Industry is ripping you off to justify your theft. Now you are just stealing and you really can't bitch for getting busted.
Re:Apple DRM... by aardvarkjoe · 2003-03-04 06:17 · Score: 3, Funny

You forgot step 3:

Bitch that you had to pay 99 cents for the song.

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Re:$.99 for a song?! by imadork · 2003-03-04 06:30 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't you get it?
In order for it to be an Apple product, it has to be an Insanely Great idea that is overpriced enough to make you think twice before buying it.
This qualifies.
Re:Well, not as good as mine by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-04 06:31 · Score: 2, Funny

I have a service called "Armed Robbery" that I access with my copy of "Smith & Wesson .357 magnum". It lets me use every Best Buy and Circuit City as a free CD vendor and costs me 0 cents. It also lets me get all the blank CD's I need for free too. I like that better.
Re:$1/song? I'll bite. by pyros · 2003-03-04 06:38 · Score: 2, Funny

Dude, just go to a bar and grab a matchbook for free.
sosumi by ruud · 2003-03-04 06:39 · Score: 2, Funny

will the first song they release be called sosumi?

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I think it computes by The+Bungi · 2003-03-04 06:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Lesse... hmmm. @ $0.99 per song... wait... hmmmm... [scribbles] darn...
$4,571.82 for my music stash, not including taxes.
So, letsee... hmmm... [scribbles] wait... hourly rate... [scribbles]...
$9,354.23 searching for my music stash, not including connection costs.
But wait... hmmm.... [scribbles] hmmm... broken marriage... [scribbles] hmmm... gray hairs... [scribbles] inane chats with "chics" from Argentina... [sobs] hmmm... downloading Pink Floyd and hearing some Iranian guy... [sobs]
So yeah, I think I'll pay for it.
[scribbles] ...
Re:More 1-Click fraud purchases? by mbbac · 2003-03-04 07:23 · Score: 2, Funny

What is your point? Apple licensed one-click from Amazon.

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For only $.98... by nybble_me · 2003-03-04 08:13 · Score: 0, Funny

I will provide the same service. All payments must be made in advance. Add you will need to install a special download manager by the name of Kazaa.

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Knowing Apple, the only music on it... by payndz · 2003-03-04 09:47 · Score: 2, Funny

...will be Joan Baez tracks. Damn you, Steve Jobs!

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Re:At first glance... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-04 10:25 · Score: 1, Funny

I buy pretty much 1-2 CDs a year now
... because it's tacky to give someone a CDR burned with pirated MP3s as a birthday or xmas gift.
Re:Two things would get me to use this. by .com+b4+.storm · 2003-03-04 10:41 · Score: 2, Funny

Subject line: Two things would get me to use this. (Score:4)

1. No DRM [...]
2. Catalog choices [...]
3. Previews, allowing me [...]

Maybe Apple could sweeten the deal by throwing in a copy of Sesame Street: Learn To Count for the Mac. :)

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Everybody has it wrong... by douglasq · 2003-03-04 10:47 · Score: 2, Funny

Apple already previewed their upcoming service in a commercial a long time ago. There's nothing to download. Using the iTunes interface, you schedule live acts (Smashmouth, Lil' Kim, and George Clinton were part of the beta stage testing) to play a private show in your own auditorium. You get to arrange the order of the acts and ask request of each. Or something like that...

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1. Re:Everybody has it wrong... by berniecase · 2003-03-05 01:08 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I bet it will cost a bit extra to bring John Lennon back from the dead to play Instant Karma for me.... right?