I don't think it will stay 10 cents, but since they do have bigger, more prominent competitors and probably will for a while, they can't raise the price more than 99c. Lala allows you to get the hear the song as much as you want. Right now the quality is probably bad, but the idea is good. Have a music library you can access from memory, no more xGB iPods. Say what you like, but the way internet connection is going, listening to a song anywhere sounds god to me.
It may seem like a waste now to buy music online but think about where the music industry is probably going. Right now the music is useless except at home. But I'm betting in the next few years things like this are going to become more popular, and more accessible on standard mp3 players. It's better than DRM because you can't lose the songs. So once ipods can access this, it sounds like a pretty fair deal to have ten cents a song for music you don't even have to store or worry about losing. Look ahead into the future. When we can access this wherever, it'll be a cheap, quick, storable way to use music.
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I don't think it will stay 10 cents, but since they do have bigger, more prominent competitors and probably will for a while, they can't raise the price more than 99c. Lala allows you to get the hear the song as much as you want. Right now the quality is probably bad, but the idea is good. Have a music library you can access from memory, no more xGB iPods. Say what you like, but the way internet connection is going, listening to a song anywhere sounds god to me.
It may seem like a waste now to buy music online but think about where the music industry is probably going. Right now the music is useless except at home. But I'm betting in the next few years things like this are going to become more popular, and more accessible on standard mp3 players. It's better than DRM because you can't lose the songs. So once ipods can access this, it sounds like a pretty fair deal to have ten cents a song for music you don't even have to store or worry about losing. Look ahead into the future. When we can access this wherever, it'll be a cheap, quick, storable way to use music.