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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio candidates - Moderated
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To: Eric L who wrote (1488)6/10/2005 11:01:52 AM
From: pyslent  Read Replies (2) of 2955
 
Listen Rhapsody is an entirely different animal than iTunes Music Store... it's a subscription service that allows you to stream any song in their catalog for as long as you are a subscriber. It and competing services like it (Napster Yahoo Music Unlimited) is now offering a feature that the iTunes/iPod can't match-- the ability to load your mp3 player with ANY of these "rented" song for no incremental cost per song. Of course, you can still pay-per download with these services just as you would with iTunes-- you just can't used those purchased songs with the iPod without first transcoding them to an unrestricted mp3 format.

My feeling has always been that the appeal of such subscription services will not ultimately be realized until 3G services proliferate and provide for the ability to access streamed music on demand over the air. This circumvents completely the need to transfer digital music from your PC to your phone and gives you access to any song anytime-- a true celestial jukebox.
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