How would you like to buy a bed under a subscription model? Sure, you can switch it out and get a new one any time you want and thus get, in retail terms, thousands of dollars worth of bed usage, but if you tire of this and quit paying, you're without a bed all of a sudden.
Dude, that sounds great! I could get a decent bed, and sleep at night. I find this MS model as flawed for all the reasons renting music is flawed, but that was a bad example.
How would you like to buy a bed under a subscription model? Sure, you can switch it out and get a new one any time you want and thus get, in retail terms, thousands of dollars worth of bed usage, but if you tire of this and quit paying, you're without a bed all of a sudden
How would you like to rent an apartment? Sure, you don't have to fix the furnace if it blows, mow the lawn, and other responsibilities you would have if you bought a house, but if you tire of this and quit paying, you're without an apartment all of the sudden.
And beds relate to music how?
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$7500 if you always by single tracks.
if you are buying whole albums at $10 a pop....and they might have more than 10 tracks on them, then it's a whole different story on how much money you are spending to fill a 30 gig.
Oh sorry, it will be $5000, not $7500
I do not like MS as much as the next guy, but given the low up front costs under their music service compared to iTMS, as well as their binding scheme, it should not be disregarded so easily.
I do not like MS as much as the next guy, but given the low up front costs under their music service compared to iTMS, as well as their binding scheme, it should not be disregarded so easily.
Besides Windows and Office, Microsoft has yet to have a success at anything at this scale. The Xbox couldn't gush more blood if you gashed Bill's jugular.
I'm sorry, Microsoft sure can talk the tough talk, but it's been a looooong time since they've had a hit. Yes, I'm afraid any microsoft music venture can be disregarded quite easily.
I do not like MS as much as the next guy, but given the low up front costs under their music service compared to iTMS, as well as their binding scheme, it should not be disregarded so easily.
People won't buy this, everyone saying that people want to own music you are right. M$ has lots of monopoly power but even it couldn't sell the Edsel, or .NET. What is .NET again? What a stupid company considering the money they throw at things.
Apple need to release iTunes for PC ASAP. Hopefully that won't incite M$ to kill Mac Office because wouldn't that rekindle the antitrust trial (whatever happened to that? )
Hmm...don't forget the deep pockets of MS. Look what they're losing just trying to get Xbox to the masses.
Imagine if MS offers some ridiculous price like $4.99/month for unlimited downloads?
I'm sure there will be millions who'll jump on the bandwagon at $60/year.
That doesn't reflect the direction they're going in with their Trusted Content platform. They're moving rapidly and very publicly in the other direction: Providing a client that gives a tremendous amount of control to the provider, not the consumer. That's how they hope to endear themselves to the content publishers.
I'll be shocked and amazed if MS offers unlimited downloads at any price, unless there are strings attached to the downloaded files.
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Originally posted by frawgz
How would you like to buy a bed under a subscription model? Sure, you can switch it out and get a new one any time you want and thus get, in retail terms, thousands of dollars worth of bed usage, but if you tire of this and quit paying, you're without a bed all of a sudden.
Dude, that sounds great! I could get a decent bed, and sleep at night. I find this MS model as flawed for all the reasons renting music is flawed, but that was a bad example.
How would you like to buy a bed under a subscription model? Sure, you can switch it out and get a new one any time you want and thus get, in retail terms, thousands of dollars worth of bed usage, but if you tire of this and quit paying, you're without a bed all of a sudden
How would you like to rent an apartment? Sure, you don't have to fix the furnace if it blows, mow the lawn, and other responsibilities you would have if you bought a house, but if you tire of this and quit paying, you're without an apartment all of the sudden.
And beds relate to music how?
$7500 if you always by single tracks.
if you are buying whole albums at $10 a pop....and they might have more than 10 tracks on them, then it's a whole different story on how much money you are spending to fill a 30 gig.
Oh sorry, it will be $5000, not $7500
I do not like MS as much as the next guy, but given the low up front costs under their music service compared to iTMS, as well as their binding scheme, it should not be disregarded so easily.
Originally posted by chych
I do not like MS as much as the next guy, but given the low up front costs under their music service compared to iTMS, as well as their binding scheme, it should not be disregarded so easily.
Besides Windows and Office, Microsoft has yet to have a success at anything at this scale. The Xbox couldn't gush more blood if you gashed Bill's jugular.
I'm sorry, Microsoft sure can talk the tough talk, but it's been a looooong time since they've had a hit. Yes, I'm afraid any microsoft music venture can be disregarded quite easily.
I do not like MS as much as the next guy, but given the low up front costs under their music service compared to iTMS, as well as their binding scheme, it should not be disregarded so easily.
True, there's a lot suckers out there.
Apple need to release iTunes for PC ASAP. Hopefully that won't incite M$ to kill Mac Office because wouldn't that rekindle the antitrust trial (whatever happened to that?
Originally posted by the cool gut
Besides Windows and Office, Microsoft has yet to have a success at anything at this scale.
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Imagine if MS offers some ridiculous price like $4.99/month for unlimited downloads?
I'm sure there will be millions who'll jump on the bandwagon at $60/year.
Originally posted by satchmo
Hmm...don't forget the deep pockets of MS. Look what they're losing just trying to get Xbox to the masses.
Imagine if MS offers some ridiculous price like $4.99/month for unlimited downloads?
I'm sure there will be millions who'll jump on the bandwagon at $60/year.
That doesn't reflect the direction they're going in with their Trusted Content platform. They're moving rapidly and very publicly in the other direction: Providing a client that gives a tremendous amount of control to the provider, not the consumer. That's how they hope to endear themselves to the content publishers.
I'll be shocked and amazed if MS offers unlimited downloads at any price, unless there are strings attached to the downloaded files.