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Will more follow soon?

AOL what?

AOL Music... Later

more will follow soon

Actually, I think there is a place for a good subscription service for those that like that model. I have no problem with Napster, especially as long as the DRM stripping software keeps up.

AOL??? BWAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!! They're still around????? LOL!

More willl follow? Who is left?

iSteve:
Why, the cell carriers, of course! They'll take a little longer, but with the iPhone coming, the writing is on the wall.

Brilliant! They can both combine to share the burn rate.

Please.. oh please, stay in business for AAPL's sake. We need the "competition".

Next up.... the "telcons".

Game, set, match.

If this keeps up, I might be drinking a bottle of "Montrachet 1978" with my friends next year in celebration.

ITMS is like Amazon and eBay in as much as they are good, simple ideas and volume/stock/reach is important, even critical, to success in the mass market (very different to niche market). It's difficult to compete with simple, effective ideas.

Was AOL's 'Music Now' ever available to Mac users? My limited research indicates not. Maybe AOL believed the 3% or whatever marketshare figures of Mac OS (probably less for their userbase as many (most) are trying to avoid the crap that comes with Windows) and decided to ignore it. That's foolish.

You know this might not be good

If all the other online music companies fold, then there won't be the massive fragmentation of the market that keeps Apple above them. If a clear and streamlines competitor appears on the map because the rest disappeared, then Apple is going to have some real competition for the first time.

It's truly sad that AOL was born from Apple. Their homepage is a god awful eyesore.

It's amazing how companies chose to abandon working, profitable partnerships for an unproven business following failed business models. Dell dropped iPod for Dell DJ and instead of making money off iPod, they lost quite a handful before dropping Dell DJ. AOL also abandoned partnership to send AOL members to iTunes and chose a subscription model where so many companies have failed instead. Go figure.

no problem . . . it all plays for sure, with microsoft behind it what could possibly go wrong?

"If a clear and streamlines competitor appears on the map because the rest disappeared, then Apple is going to have some real competition for the first time."

Problem is, Joe, that's one helluva big "if"!

I tried Napster for a while, and was surprised that I liked it. The one thing that completely sucked was that you couldn't listen to everything if you had a subscription--you had to buy certain albums before you could listen to them. That completely sucked, and ended up being more or less a deal breaker for me. But it did prove to me that perhaps a subscription model could work. People have subscriptions to the internet, to phone lines, to gas and electricity, and they are just a given. You move, you re-start your subscription at your new place. Could music be the same thing someday? Why not?

Soon, more will follow.

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
---{time I had some time alone}

And I feel fine...

mwfs

War swallows Phil Moon.

There is that Blood word again....yawn ...how original

More follows soon will

Perhaps there should be a second iTunes store; one that uses WMA for its DRM. That way iTunes could sell it all!

ok, you guys gotta get out more (follows soon will)

I guess MDN doesn't NEED to write "their take" when AppScout writes it for them.

Who is this 'Soon' and why does Mored keep following him???

MW: least - It's all I could do!!

Of course they can't make money. Their only serious -- and deadly -- competitor is iTunes. But iTunes is by business plan priced to make only a marginal profit. iTunes is monetized by the Apple built hardware it sells. I suspect the small margin is there to prevent any anti-trust problems, but given iTunes market share, no one else can operate independently as a download only business and make a profit. Brilliant, on Apple's part!

Marred, ill Zune falls low.

Moore's Law, soon hollow.