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Nokia the Next to Try an iTunes Killer?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the everyone-wants-a-piece-of-those-numbers dept.

fragmentate writes "Nokia recently acquired Loudeye Corp., a digital media distribution channel, presumably to offer streaming media to providers and their customers. BusinessWeek is speculating, 'the company may be seeking to go after none other than the 800-pound gorilla of the digital music world, Apple Computer. [...] Yet the Loudeye brand is virtually unknown when compared with that of Apple's hugely popular iTunes service. This gives carriers the chance to market their own brand instead, says P.J. McNealy, an analyst with American Technology Research.'"

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  1. This will be good! by lewp · · Score: 5, Funny

    After the smashing success of the NGage, Nokia couldn't help but go after the one manufacturer that owns its market more than Nintendo owns portable game systems. I see nothing but success in their future, and -- god willing -- the triumphant return of sidetalkin'.

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  2. But iTunes will never work! by cubicledrone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah yes. There is Napster! For what reason might we, the enlightened internetweb people, need to pay 99 cents a song?

    And then Apple sold umpty trillion $ worth of 99 cent songs.

    And now everyone runs to copy them.

    Just further proof that:

    skeptics.

    are.

    ALWAYS.

    wrong.

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  3. Get out the shovel by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 1, Funny

    Get out the shovel and dig another grave.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  4. Re:Nope. by geeper · · Score: 1, Funny

    it is not about who is first, but who is the best
    uhmmmm...windows?

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