mortslim wrote: 
> New article: "Will streaming sites dethrone iTunes as king of digital
> music?"
> 
> "With the growth of Spotify, Pandora, Songza, and other streaming music
> services, consumers now have the opportunity to treat the entire world
> of recorded music as their playlist. And as mobile devices transform the
> way we interact with our surroundings, itÂ’s making the idea of paying to
> own songs look ever more expensive, even at $0.99."
> 
> http://news.yahoo.com/will-streaming-sites-dethrone-itunes-as-king-of-digital-music--20120816.html

A couple of years ago I'd go into a bar and the bartender would be
playing tunes from an iPod, with very few exceptions. Now, I don't see
many iPods. Instead, they play Pandora through their smart phones.

I think we're less than a decade away from this being the main form of
music play for the vast majority of people. It's where Logitech wanted
to take the Squeezebox line, but failed miserably. I can still see them
returning to this mass market, but they'll need to do it by churning out
cheap boxes by the tens of thousands for well under $100 to do it. The
Squeezebox product line as we once knew it is dead.


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