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April 29, 2003
Review of Apple's Music Service
I've had a chance to try out Apple's new music service and I'm fairly impressed. I agree with Jeremy about Apple missing an opportunity to customize based on what's currently in your iTunes library.
Besides that I'm quite impressed. Over the past few years I've periodically been pointed at a *legal* music service, which for the most part is filled with indie or small label artists, hard to find anything I'm familiar with. Of course they get some b-side from a few well-known artists and use them for marketing. There have been one or two that with a small fee you can get access to a larger library. Of course this is based only on my experience, I have not been aggressive at searching out these service.
Three things impress me about the Apple iTunes service:
1) Large selection. Of course not everything is there, but there is a lot. I found albums from Spinal Tap, The Boomtown Rats, U2, The Cult, Weezer, Violent Femmes . . . the list seems to go on and on.
2) Ease of purchase. I set up my Apple account and then with one click in iTunes the song is purchased and downloaded. Makes it really easy, my mp3 player essentially has a massive collection of 30-second songs, and with one click I can get the entire song. I have no idea what the billing cycle will be.
3) Price. Probably not very common, but I would prefer to purchase music and know I'm not in violation of copyright (notice I say *prefer*, can't say I always adhere to this). Here I can buy one or two songs, or the whole album for considerably less than at the store. Seemed like many of the albums were $9.99 to purchase the entire collection of songs.
Will be interesting to watch this over then next little bit . . .
Posted by mike at April 29, 2003 9:43 AM
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