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Apple to Launch Music Service?
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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>> $.99 a song with the ability to burn to CD doesn't sound too bad.
Sure, and when you like punk stuff like me, a CD can easily contain 30 tracks.
Even for a more normal 10-15 track album, it's still retail prices, with the added bonus that you pay the production cost yourself, with your own burner and media.
If this service was from MSFT or Sony you'd hate it.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
That assumes that you want all of the songs on a CD. Most CDs, even ones I really like, have at least four or five tracks that are of no interest to me.
Part of the problem the RIAA has been struggling with is that they can't seem to pull themselves away from the "play a single on the radio, get people to buy the single AND another ten songs on a CD for $16" model.
This *may* be a better method. Pay $6 for the songs you really want, and don't pay for the songs you don't want.
Time will tell. After all, this is still just a rumor.
Why is 25 cents always the magic number for people?
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
you must listen to some awful music if you only get 1-2 good songs on a cd.
And what precisely has apple done in the last twenty years that ever made you think that they got it? Maintaining a closed platform, charging double for comparable hardware, or charging their loyal customers for email? I'm dying to hear this.
People who think they know everything really piss off those of us that actually do.
My point is, .mac isnt all that different in conccept from .net, except that people MIGHT actually find it useful, and palladium isnt in anything I have ever bought, and NOBODY CAN FORCE IT ON ME, because x86 isnt a CLOSED PLATFORM.
People who think they know everything really piss off those of us that actually do.