iTunes Competitors Line Up (Samsung, Sprint)
Ironically, Samsung is the company which is supplying Apple with the NAND Flash memory for the iPod nano.
Meanwhile, Sprint Nextel has launched the first US music download service aimed at mobile phone users.
The Sprint Music Store enables Sprint customers to download songs for $2.50/each. Sprint has lined up 250,000 songs from all four major music labels. For $2.50, customers get both a lower-quality phone version as well as the high-quality (WMA) version for their PC.
The pricing of the Sprint service, almost two-a-half-times the 99 cents that iTunes charges for a download, reflects the belief among mobile carriers that consumers will pay a premium to buy music while they are on the move, an assumption some analysts dispute.
Comparisons, of course, are made with the Motorola ROKR iTunes capable phone. As previously reported, Apple does not offer over-the-air iTunes purchasing. Instead, requiring you to copy songs over from your PC or Mac.
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I was recently in Berlin for a shoot, my wife had the ibook at home. I wanted to buy some new music for the dull nights at the hotel, but with no ibbok there was no way to get them on my ipod.
I found myself fantazising about buying music via my phone, but for 2,5 times the price?
Forget it.
too expensive
:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
I know people are stupid, but I really can't see this going anywhere.
You'd think for $2.50 each, Sprint would have secured more than a quarter million songs. Surely the record companies would love to give you access to their entire libraries if people (suckers) will buy them for that outrageous price.
I know people are stupid, but I really can't see this going anywhere.
You really think record companies are seeing most of that 2.50? This isn't like the iTunes Music store, where the record companies get most of the dough. This looks to be Spring/Nextel getting a lot more cash/song, especially since they have to recover costs of using a much more expensive distribution medium.
much more expensive distribution medium.
don't forget that in this case they own the distribution medium
...reflects the belief among mobile carriers that consumers will pay a premium to buy music while they are on the move...
Why do they have cause to believe this? Because suckers pay a buck for a ring or something?
I hate people. All of them.
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