iTunes subscription?
I’ve been mulling over this for a bit now and would be interested to hear your thoughts on whether you would pay an extra $100 for you iPod or iPhone if you were guarenteed unlimited downloads for the life of the device? The article here from the financial times talks about the deal that Apple is apparently trying to work out with the record companies. I wonder if what Josh just posted changes things though…because that would make the life of the iPod quite a bit longer and the capacity enormously larger.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Hands down, yes.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Heck yes. That would be awesome.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I don’t know if the premium idea will pan out. Even if the device only lasts 1 year you can download hundreds of thousands of tracks in that amount of time for rent for only $100 or whatever. I’m not sure that’s worth it to Apple or the labels. They will only get a tiny cut (we’re talking cents) out of the money and I’m not sure it’d cover bandwidth. They’ll most likely go for a monthly subscription like Zune has. $10-20 a month I’m guessing. Keep in mind that this also will not be every label because even on the Zune pass there are a bunch of labels who do not allow users to have access to the albums without buying them. Metal Blade comes to mind. I think the subscription idea is a good thing and this time Apple is way behind the curve.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Also you have to figure in iPod’s lasting more than one year. So can you imagine $100 premium total for 2 years? 3 years? 4? 5? The amount of worth to the labels in that case goes way down.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I mean, it would have to be a monthly subscription. I could easily download $500 worth of stuff in a day. There’s no way they’d let us do that.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
no way. apple gets enough of my money as is.