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Will You Stream Or Download Your Mobile Music?

mikp writes "In a David-and-Goliath style fight, small music companies are battling it out with established behemoths to see who can own the future of mobile music. Spotify, the Europe-based music streaming company, is about to launch its iPhone app and has plans to develop it for other mobile platforms soon. In a preview, Spotify shows how you can cache songs to your iPhone so that you don't always need a connection but the songs don't remain on your iPhone permanently. Nokia, on the other hand, has just announced two more music phones that will feature Comes With Music, an unlimited music-download service that involves a one time fee, which is part of the price of the CWM phone, and lets you download music for free (and you get to keep it) for a year. The question remains, are people more likely to stream or download music on their mobile phones?"

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  1. Banging' fantasties by Gizzmonic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You ever just really, really wanna have a menage a trois with Bulk and Skull from Power Rangers?

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  2. Re:Neither by fulldecent · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    >> USA already has other public options: public schools and USPS Priority Mail over private schools and UPS 3 Day Select.

    Oh, that is great news, please call my local school district to inform them! They thought they were only funded by local government, but your sig implies that they are entitled to funding from the federal government.

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  3. Re:Neither by jedidiah · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What kind of moron uses the public schools as an argument for socialized medicine?

    Public schools are the argument to restrict welfare medicine to the absolute minimum.

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