Comments on: Sony Ericsson ready to challenge Nokia's 'Comes with Music'

It's teaming with British firm Omnifone to launch a competitor to Nokia. All four music sources are aboard, according to sources. javascript:toggle_visibility('imginput')

[shinelikeitdoes]

Awesome. another new service that completely misses the plot.

[Synthmeister]

This seems like a couple of dinosaurs fighting over a couple of scraps after the Apple iPod meteor has already struck the planet.

I love this quote: "For the music industry, Comes with Music--which is expected to come to the U.S. sometime soon--is attractive because its really a new form of subscription model." Boy, that music subscription pipe dream still lives?! Wow. I'm sure that for some people, it's great, but the vast majority of people would just rather buy their music, not rent it.

So remind me, how is this new? Oh, it's on your phone! So people will forget about using their iPods, I guess, and that pesky Apple music store will finally go away.

Oh yea, and you can "keep" the music. They forget to tell you that it is wrapped in DRM and when your phone/computer dies, so does the music. You can't burn CDs or transfer it to another device.

It will be interesting to see if the American telcos allow Nokia to invade their music turf.

[birds08]

I am not care have music function in my phone, reality that's function so facility to store favor music .

[redowl2]

If you actually looked into the offer you would realise that this is an incredible deal. It does come with DRM (initially) but if your PC/Mobile dies you can simply redownload it as many times as you like to a different device. And it's not renting - all the tracks are yours to keep after the contract ends, all 2.1 million of them.

So who in their right mind would carry on paying 79cents or whatever you guys pay for a track? I reckon the basic phone will be around $300 so after a couple of hundred tracks you have already saved money.

By the time it reaches the US, DRM will be long gone.