Goodsounds;425525 Wrote: > My view is that internet music subscription services may be facing a > situation not unlike the market for sat phones, sat radio, etc. These > markets all have small cores of enthusiastic users who will pay whatever > to get the service. But the business model ain't there because the > market is too small. The barrier to growth isn't the price, but rather > the limited attraction of the service that results in a too-limited > market opportunity.
I disagree, although not entirely. I think we are writing this off before its had chance to take off, which i think it will (and is beginning to, with all the new providers coming on board now in the last few months - are all these companies crazy?). All successful technology products start off with a small group of enthusiasts. The barrier has not been limited interest per-say, but heal dragging of the music industry and Apple's business methods, but i think these things are finally changing now. If the iPod supported unlimited music rental for a small monthly fee it would be an overnight success IMO. But people are switching on now and joe public is more tech savvy than ever before, it's just going to take a bit longer in this climate. We could have been having this exact same conversation about MP3 player 8 years ago. Thats not to say Napster wont go bust in the meantime, but we are making a hell of a lot of assumptions here! -- autopilot Cheers, auto. -"don't call me Shirley."- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ autopilot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1763 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63479 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
