BKS3Oct 22, 2007, 7:17 AM
...will never be popular if carriers continue to charge by the song. Why not charge a monthly recurring fee of $9.99 - $14.99 for unl downloads? I don't believe charging $.99 - $1.99 per track is even remotely attractive considering once you purchase the tracks, you are still just "renting" them. Lame ๐ .
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What do you mean by "once you purchase the tracks, you are still "renting" them."???
It can be downloaded from OTA and directly to the memory card can't it?
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Well with napster currently, I beleive, that you pay a monthly subscription and once you cancel your subscription, all those songs you downloaded will no longer work until you re-active your service with napster. Course this is the old method of sideloading your phone and not OTA downloads.
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en102Oct 22, 2007, 1:22 PM
Yeah ๐ก gotta love DRM.
Its a little nicer to bluetooth into your phone and upload mp3's directly... also a lot cheaper.
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There seems to be a common misconception understanding these services...
Napster is both a Purchase by the Track/Album service exactly like iTunes AND Napster is also a subscription service providing downloads of music for a period of 30 days.
Purchases do not expire and can always be retrieved/re-downloaded by contacting Napster customer care. Purchases can be exported an unlimited amount of times and burned basically and unlimited amount of times. Same as iTunes.
Subscription tracks do cost $14.95/month for a period of 30 days, in which the Windows Media DRM licenses need to be renewed, or they expire. Subscription tracks can not be burned, only exported to a capable phone.
Purchases are not affected by subscription and vice-v...
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Nice, thanks for that. ๐
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Although most older Blackberry and RIM devices do not offer Napster Service, some of the newer ones do and will.
example (Dobson / Cellular One :: Pearl and Curve both offer Napster Downloads OTA).
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That's just an evil business practive!!!
I just think it's simple plus no worries, to load either mp3s, or wma's from my laptop, from my personal CD collection, onto a microSD card.
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Why would you pay Them for music downloads when you can load your own music on the phone? Im missing something. ๐
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Using you're brilliant theory, iTunes is a service that has not found it's target audience yet, and has not been a profitable service for Apple nor a functional service for consumers! What were you thinking as you typed your post? ๐คจ
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Itunes seems to work out pretty good for me, and not that DRM free music is offered by the for .99 a track and more albums are 9.99, seems like a better deal that napster.
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