Verizon Plans On Music Downloads
Dont Sound that good.
IMO I dont see this working. On a customer standpoint If im fimilar with downloading music I would download it were I do now..Napster or itunes if you pay or winmx ect if you dont pay. The problem that I see happening are the songs are goin to be way too much money for the normal person to want to spend and unless u store it on a mem card once you download it, you wont be able to have more then a few till your phones memory runs out. Now here is where I see the problem start. If they offer the songs to compete with Itunes and other PAYING sites on the internet its goin make their other ringtones look stupid and way too costly. Why pay 2.50 or whatever verizon charges for real ringtone songs for 20 seconds when you can get the whole song for ...
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you're absolutely right. we can look around the world to see how pricing in comparison with the itunes music store or whatever is locally popular totally affects the success of a wireless music service. in europe, t-mobile offered a music download service, only they sold 30 second clips, not full songs. but the clips were not sold as ringtones, they were sold as songs. t-mobile priced the clips (yes, the clips) way higher than the .99 euro or 79p standard for songs - they priced them the same as mp3 ringtones (about 3 euro each). the service failed miserably- for a number of reasons, but price was a big one.
in japan kddi took a different approach. they recently launched a song download service - with real full length songs - for only 10 ...
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in japan kddi took a different approach. they recently launched a song download service - with real full length songs - for only 10 ...
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I don't know, VZW isn't one to give up so easy when something doesn't work like it is supposed to... like the Push to Talk. Music On Demand or the more probable name Get Music (part of Get It Now) will probably be comparable to iTunes since other competitors signed up with Apple. A quick fix is to just lower the price of a ringtones or atleast make them equal. The Mp3 player enabled phones use a removable flash card, LG-vx8100 has a 512mb one. I don't see it going away even if it ends up sucking.
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Personally, I think that they may do really well. We've all heard rumors of "itunes phones", and I think that if verizon wanted to smash the competition, they would enter into an agreement of some sort with itunes. Espicially with the roll out of EVDO. Imagin downloading a song from i-tunes from your cell phone and then being able to also listen to it on your PC, or even burn it to CD. I think it could be really great. They did an excellent job with the ringback tones, and I think that these songs could be the next great thing in their media lineup.
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Silverdale_man said:...
IMO I dont see this working. On a customer standpoint If im fimilar with downloading music I would download it were I do now..Napster or itunes if you pay or winmx ect if you dont pay. The problem that I see happening are the songs are goin to be way too much money for the normal person to want to spend and unless u store it on a mem card once you download it, you wont be able to have more then a few till your phones memory runs out. Now here is where I see the problem start. If they offer the songs to compete with Itunes and other PAYING sites on the internet its goin make their other ringtones look stupid and way too costly. Why pay 2.50 or whatever verizon charges for real ringtone songs for 20 sec
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