Comments on: Samsung plans own music service

Korean company teams with MusicNet for European service that will work with its forthcoming MP3 players.

[df561]

plays for sure is defacto

MusicNet is powered by Windows Media...so the PlaysForSure "branding" is not needed.

[Europodboy]

Fails for sure

Plays for sure is NOT defacto - iTunes is.

[geotopia]

Same old Same Old

Sony, Samsung, Toshiba - they just don't get it. The player is
only part of the puzzle, but they've spent the last 4 or 5 years
entirely focused on hardware. I could get a Chinese factory to
crank out a new player with new features in a New York minute.

So then they (MS and Samsung) come up with a NEW music
service. Way too late folks. And then what really astounds is that
they pre-announce it for some fall or winter introduction. Just
line it up and release the service. What are they expecting some
extra bump in sales to come out of pent up demand?! Whatever,
folks will just keep buying from iTunes until their ready.
However, by the time they are finally live with the service,
everyone will be too lazy to switch.

It's hilarious watching these big behemoth companies scrap it
out over what's left in marketshare after Apple's 75%. Me too! Me
too! I'm trying to think of a word to describe this mentality of
wanting a piece of every pie. How much is Samsung, Dell,
Gateway, Toshiba, Sandisk going to waste on product
development and marketing before they realize that they ought
to just focus on their core competencies (of course I didn't
include Sony because they should have OWNED the iPod!)?

[geotopia]

Same old same old

Sony, Samsung, Toshiba - they just don't get it. The player is
only part of the puzzle, but they've spent the last 4 or 5 years
entirely focused on hardware. I could get a Chinese factory to
crank out a new player with new features in a New York minute.

So then they (MS and Samsung) come up with a NEW music
service. Way too late folks. And then what really astounds is that
they pre-announce it for some fall or winter introduction. Just
line it up and release the service. What are they expecting some
extra bump in sales to come out of pent up demand?! Whatever,
folks will just keep buying from iTunes until their ready.
However, by the time they are finally live with the service,
everyone will be too lazy to switch.

It's hilarious watching these big behemoth companies scrap it
out over what's left in marketshare after Apple's 75%. Me too! Me
too! I'm trying to think of a word to describe this mentality of
wanting a piece of every pie. How much is Samsung, Dell,
Gateway, Toshiba, Sandisk going to waste on product
development and marketing before they realize that they ought
to just focus on their core competencies (of course I didn't
include Sony because they should have OWNED the iPod!)?

[J.G.]

Maybe this is a trial balloon

The guilty parties still have time to back out of what will be a waste of time and money.

Heck, assuming that Zune doesn't turn out to be:

1) As late to market as Vista, and/or

2) A bigger joke than the Dell DJ

Samsung and Co. will have to compete with it.