>> The future is renting rather than owning. If you don't own anything, >> you don't need a local server. >> >I think you are correct, the only thing that makes me doubt a little bit >is the fact that Apple still only allows us to buy music and not rent >it. It only gives me some doubts since they have done most other things >right during the last years. > I disagree that the future is with renting music - well isn't my future anyway.
I own my house (well still paying for it, but will eventually own it...), and will not change to start renting my house. Similarly, I own a lot of CDs, which I have invested a lot of time ripping to a media library. I'm not going to start paying a monthly fee to rent that music at a lower music quality, and the thought of uploading it all, probably involving compressing to a lower quality, such that I can stream/download it for playing seems backward. I don't fancy paying a monthly fee to be able to play stuff and not own that content that I cannot do with as I please. I also have a lot of obscure music, which I would not be able to rent from any on-line service. I can't believe that any single future on-line service will have 100% of all music available on demand in high quality. I agree that cloud services and music rental may appeal to some people, and maybe this is an increasing percentage, but surely a large percentage of people like me are still not going to comit to a subscription based service to play music that they already own. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
