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AT&T Deal With eMusic Excludes iPhones

Posted by kdawson on from the you-scratch-my-back dept.

ubermiester writes "ArsTechnica reports that AT&T has inked a deal with eMusic, a direct competitor to Apple's iTunes music store. eMusic specializes in independent artists and offers DRM-free content for direct download. For a monthly fee (the number of tracks one can download per month depends on the package) the site's catalog will be available to AT&T customers using Samsung and Nokia handsets, but not the iPhone."

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  1. Uh... by His+Shadow · · Score: 5, Informative
    eMusic is a website. You subscribe to it and pay a monthly fee for a certain number of downloads. Then you download the songs to your iTunes and sync them. The AT&T deal has users pay prices many times higher to get the utility of downloading songs directly to your phone

    What, exactly, is the story here? That Boo Hoo, I have to continue to pay the much lower cost of 7$US for 40 songs and sync it to my iPhone using iTunes?

    Now who is going to be hit with the "cost of cool"?

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  2. Re:Apple probably likes the deal. by His+Shadow · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yes, because it's impossible to put anything but iTunes protected tracks in iTunes or on your iPhone.

    Can you hear my eyes rolling?

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