japhyNov 1, 2006, 3:57 PM
Yet another attempt to grab at the digital market. . . because there's not enough of those yet. 🙄
I can't imagine this being something executed well. True, not everyone likes iTunes, but the last thing the world needs is another music service dripping with DRM. And given that it's coming from Cingular, it will be overpriced. Not ridiculously overpriced, but noticably more than any other equivalent service.
yech. . .
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Cingular is just trying to play catch up with the rest of the bunch. I own two phones that play MP3s, one Sprint and one Nextel. I don't use our online music service much, but love the fact that all i have to do isplug my "Fusic" into my desktop and drag&drop music.
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i can see them chargin $2.99 a song. current ringtones are 2.49 for a clip, i wish they would decrease the price but atleast a dollar ohwell
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You guys gotta read the info...Cingular isn't launching their own service, just the phones and partnering with services. The other service will likely set the price of the songs.
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japhyNov 1, 2006, 5:10 PM
It may be a partnership, but it's still going to be something new, separate from the abovementioned partner groups. Since it's going to be run through Cingular, this would effectly be a new music download service.
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According to the article, the partnership is with several sites, such as Napster, Yahoo, and eMusic.
So, it sounds like people will be able to choose which site they buy their music from, and it should be noted that eMusic does NOT have DRM.
I think it's a pretty nifty idea on Cingular's part to partner up with existing sites instead of running it's own.
I generally have a negative view towards cell phone providers making music downloads available (that means YOU, Verizon, with your nickel-and-dime schemes and BT disabling hijinks)... but I think I shall withhold judgement on Cingular's service until I hear more details.
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japhyNov 1, 2006, 6:51 PM
I like your optimism, but I work for Cingular, so I know how bad they can be. 🙄 😡 I'd be VERY surprised to see Cingular's blend of the above mentioned service be as easy to use, cheap, and non DRM'd as their current incarnations.
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looks like i wont be using cingular's music service, and the worst part is that its using windows media, plays for sure DRM, not everyone has a pc, this is gonna leave out a lot of mac/itunes users, and i thought cingular is supposed to have a partnership with apple or something, well at least i can buy a mp3 that will work for me and my comp, nice try cingular.
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They probably went after PCs because there's a bigger market share. Yes, I know it's shocking to the Apple faithful, but the computing world does not revolve around Macs.
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