Napster vs iTunes: Superbowl Ad

lame... :rolleyes:

No one wants to have yet another montly bill. I don't think subscription services will ever catch on, no matter how cheap. I know I would never want one. The way iTMS does it is just more flexible and the price is already better than buying in store. There's really not much to improve on.

Its so true. Nobody wants to rent their music. they want to own it!

Where in their calculation does Napster account for the "your music player sucks almost as bad as the Napster interface" variable?

-Joe

The last time a company told consumers to "do the math" was with the Atari Jaguar.

And we all know how that one turned out.

Then what when you don't want to spend the $15 a month anymore but you still want that music you have listening to for so long. I would rather know I did the math spent the money and still have the music. Thank you very much!!

I dunno. It would be nice to keep refilling your player with new content. However, I use a lot of my purchased tracks for other purposes besides just listening to music. I use iTunes music in slide shows, home movies,dvds etc. If Microsoft could build Janus so that rented songs could be used in projects such as the ones I mentioned above, then *maybe* they would have something unique.

However, I doubt that will ever happen.

So far, this story has been rated 100% negative. Is our Apple bias showing or are we simply sensible?

The theme of the campaign is "Do the Math"

Great strategy! Everybody knows that consumers LOVE to do math!

Yeah, the Atari Jaguar was heinously unsuccessful. I was about to bring up that campaign myself.

Napster is forgetting one key thing with this little ad of theirs - people won't want to give up their iPods to use their service, even if it is a better value as they claim.