Comments on: Nokia: Trouble Comes with Music http://meownewsletter.com/2009/10/17/nokia-trouble-comes-with-music/ Multimedia Ecosystem Opportunity Watch Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:45:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: mrD http://meownewsletter.com/2009/10/17/nokia-trouble-comes-with-music/comment-page-1/#comment-10146 mrD Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:04:59 +0000 http://meownewsletter.com/?p=217#comment-10146 Nota Bene, Spotify's 6M users are probably mostly freebies as Spotify's annual reports cited revenue lesser than a small pizzeria in Sweden. And their model is also subscription based, if not tied to a specific hardware, still a monthly fee. In the case of Nokia, you get the subscription for 'free' if you buy a phone and after a year you can renew it. The €0.80 per track model is flawed as well. It has worked well with iTunes, but does it work anywhere else? and from a phone discover and pay €0.80, hmmm.. tough. There is certainly trouble with music. however, streaming music to a device vs storing in the device, the latter has to be the option unless you wanna drain the battery and/or inflict unnecessary bandwidth usage (which can be costly for the carrier given unlimited dataplans). Alternatively, the quality of the music has to be compromised (64k transfer vs 512k-1M). Nota Bene, Spotify’s 6M users are probably mostly freebies as Spotify’s annual reports cited revenue lesser than a small pizzeria in Sweden. And their model is also subscription based, if not tied to a specific hardware, still a monthly fee.

In the case of Nokia, you get the subscription for ‘free’ if you buy a phone and after a year you can renew it. The €0.80 per track model is flawed as well. It has worked well with iTunes, but does it work anywhere else? and from a phone discover and pay €0.80, hmmm.. tough.

There is certainly trouble with music. however, streaming music to a device vs storing in the device, the latter has to be the option unless you wanna drain the battery and/or inflict unnecessary bandwidth usage (which can be costly for the carrier given unlimited dataplans). Alternatively, the quality of the music has to be compromised (64k transfer vs 512k-1M).

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]]> By: Getting the band out of the box « Freelance Rider Company http://meownewsletter.com/2009/10/17/nokia-trouble-comes-with-music/comment-page-1/#comment-10144 Getting the band out of the box « Freelance Rider Company Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:09:42 +0000 http://meownewsletter.com/?p=217#comment-10144 [...] or later some company is going to Get This.  Maybe it will even be a rebooted upstart Nokia (Comes with Music, still not in the US) since they tend to do things their own way.  Regardless, this scenario is [...] [...] or later some company is going to Get This.  Maybe it will even be a rebooted upstart Nokia (Comes with Music, still not in the US) since they tend to do things their own way.  Regardless, this scenario is [...]

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