Comments on: Digital music is going mobile

While the iTunes phone plays a waiting game, cell phone networks are building their own download stores.

[wazzledoozle]

So..

Now instead of buying a $2 ringtone, we will buy a $2 crap quality song that we have to stream (presumably for another monthly fee plus airtime) and is not compatible with other devices? GREAT! Im sure all the teenagers will love this. Cant wait until the parents see the bills.

The carriers' got it all wrong

If you can but an iTune single for 99 cents, phone carriers should not expect $3 for the same thing. In fact, the ring-tone business will rather go down in price when carriers add real tunes! Sounds like a paradox? It is not as the consumption of real tunes will be more significant in volume than ring tones, and that sets the price-level for everything else. It is about time to consider flat-rate as well. Otherwise this may not work as planned. The ARPU would anyway increase and that's the important stuff, isn't it?

[PCCRomeo]

Just download a song to you PC, and upload it to your phone

It'll be A LOT cheaper.

[montgomeryburns]

Boo

Paying to listen to music on your cell phone is for suckers. How can
this even be compared to using an online music store to download
music to your computer that can then be transferred to any kind of
media available? This seems about as useful as cell phone video
games, which are also crap.

[kieranmullen]

Bah!

If for people with no one to talk to!

Kieran Mullen

[kieranmullen]

Downfall of apple again...

Isnt someone always trying to take down apple according to cnet? What happened to MS?

"biggest threat to Apple's dominance of the digital music business since the iTunes online music store opened in 2003"

Kieran Mullen

[open-mind]

I Don't Get It

Unless these phones can store thousands of songs (like iPod) and
interface with PC software for easy music management (like iTunes)
and integrate with home/car audio systems (as with iPod
accessories), I don't see how this is going to be popular.

It seems to be lacking a lot of features compared to the iTunes/
iPod music distribution platform.

[ip_fresh]

phone carriers

If you can but an iTune single for 99 cents, phone carriers should not expect $3 for the same thing. In fact, the ring-tone business will rather go down in price when carriers add real tunes! Sounds like a paradox? It is not as the consumption of real tunes will be more significant in volume than ring tones, and that sets the price-level for everything else. It is about time to consider flat-rate as well. Otherwise this may not work as planned. The ARPU would anyway increase and that's the important stuff, isn't it?

Davis,
http://www.my-credit-cards.co.uk/