Philip Meyer wrote: > 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. I agree with the overall proposition, but I think we may disagree on (a) the current relative proportions of those who prefer renting vs owning, (b) the rate of increase of the renters, and (c) how much more the music business cares about the renters than the owners (or more generally, the growing part of the market vs the shrinking part of the market).
Also, while I don't imagine many people would pay a subscription solely to listen to music they already have on CD, many do subscribe to such services for music discovery. I'm also sure that many will end up listening to tracks they already own on CD just because it's more convenient (lossy warts and all), especially if they haven't already ripped the CDs or set up a music server. I believe people like us with thousands of ripped CDs and music servers are a shrinking minority, or as pablolie put it in post #47, dinosaurs. The bottom line is that you or I may not change our patterns to fit with the new mainstream, but companies like Logitech, Apple, etc definitely will. And the record companies will continue to be clueless. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
