Unlimited Apple iTunes — $180 per year?
p2pnet news view | Music:- Sung to the tune of ‘When will they ever learn?’ – Apple may be contemplating a music rental service.
The likes of the pale and wan Napster have tried music subscriptions over the years, with a marked lack of success.
Now, “By definition, nearly all tips we receive about Apple future product intros are wrong,” says Erica Sadun on The Unofficial Apple Weblog, going on »»»
After all, we’re not Engadget. People aren’t going to risk their jobs to deliver insider information.
That being said, a tip that shot into our mailbox this morning really tickled my fancy: not because I think it’s accurate but because I really really want it to be true. Our anonymous tipster laid out a description for iTunes Unlimited that I thought was brilliant. Although this guy (by definition) does not work for Apple, he really ought to.
The tipster’s take on iTunes Unlimited, s/he told Sadun, goes: “For just $129.99 (or $179.99 bundled with MobileMe, or $99 for current MobileMe subscriptions), you would buy unlimited music access for one year. This would offer you 256 Kbps music, or as Steve would boom it, ‘The highest quality digital music subscription service ever.’ You could download and play directly on your computer or iPhone/iPod and the option to ‘buy and keep’ would replace the subscription version of a song with a downloaded version.”
TUAW is impressed, but
Several bloggers, “believe that Steve’s going to introduce a music subscription service – a reheat of a story that surfaced earlier this year,” he says, adding:
“We’ve checked with a variety of music executives at major labels, and none of them have heard about it.
“Not happening.”
Still, with Apple, anything is possible.
People happily pay $1 and up for tracks worth half that, or less, don’t they?
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog – The Rumor Room: iTunes Unlimited, August 20, 2008
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August 22nd, 2008 at 8:46 am
so they want more then 10$ a month
f that,
levy pays 60 mill/year
if that were applied they would get a 2.5 billion raise
SAY NO
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
$129.99 HAHA. They can kiss my ass. I download for free 24/7, and they can’t stop me
256kb/sec is junk, I only dl lossless flac or 5.1 dts now. If I need to compress, I use ogg.