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The Nine Lives of Napster
lisa langsdorf writes "There's an interesting article on BusinessWeek.com today about Napster's race to gain greater market share in the music download business. According to a recent study, Apple has 75% of the pay for music download market, but Napster could soon gain more market share due to a new upcoming market push. BusinessWeek says: 'Napster could start to increase market share in the more profitable business of selling monthly subscriptions, where customers can listen to -- but not own -- as many songs as they want each month for $9.95. While Napster is far behind RealNetworks' Rhapsody service, AOL's MusicNet, and others, it's taking the lead again in the old Napster's stomping ground: college campuses.'"
I believe that soon Napster will regain it's lost mindshare of the worlds music afficianados and become the pre-eminent supply of music in digital format.
HA HA HA I am just kidding!!!
It's great to see Napster trying to come back after the "revolution" it stired up, but let's face it, Napster is no longer a cutting-edge technology or concept. They are only trying to catch up and make some dought. This is not bad, it's just not that cool anymore.