Walmart Music Store - Beta Testing
According to Reuters, Walmark will be gathering customer feedback over the next few months and make changes before the official launch in 2004.
The new service boasts "88cents, Every Song, Every Day" and offers music downloads in Windows Media format.
Early reports had noted that Walmart sells CDs at a loss to attract customers. Its unclear if their online music store follows this model but at 88cents for every song, it appears to represent the (consistently) least expensive music download store. However, as noted, the Digital Rights allowed limit burning a song to 10 burns. (iTunes and most other services allow unlimited individual song burns, but limited playlist burns).
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Originally posted by macMaestro
If Apple is losing money at 99 cents, Walmart must be taking an insane hit with this 88 cent service. How on earth does Walmart expect this to be a good thing? Apple's could be in big trouble though...
Not really. Even if the "break even" point was $1, Walmart stand to lose very little compared to their daily sales. Black Friday, they did something like $1.3 BILLION in sales. Thats one day.
Even if they sold 100,000,000 songs in a year at a $.12 loss each, its only $12 million or less than 1% of a single days total sales.
They do it because they want name recognition in the digital music realm. Sort of like when Amazon.com first came out, they were operating at a loss and then BAM, profits!
Seems everyone and their brother is jumping on the music d/l bandwagon and I hate to say it, but if Apple doesn't support other players, they are going to fall to the wayside.
Aside, thought this was funny when I tried to sample any song.
:D :rolleyes: Stupid Windows.
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