> He said that owning films was pointless and renting them much better. He > said that didn't apply to music where people wanted to hear the same > thing many times.
That's not quite accurate; he didn't say "pointless" but did say that music was listened to many times and movies were often watched only a time or two and in that setting a rental model makes sense. You don't have to believe me, though; you can watch the keynote yourself. Personally, I think a rental model for movies works fine. I rent movies now and would rent them via Apple TV if I had one. I wish you had a week to watch them once started instead of 24 hours, but that's me. I buy some movies that I think are worth watching over and over, but most are something I only want to watch once and paying a rental fee is cheaper in that setting. > By that does not mean a music subscription service would not work. I agree. I subscribe to Pandora and enjoy it. I know others like Rhapsody. Those services may not enjoy the success of iTunes Music Store, but they appear viable. I still buy most of my music, though. > To > date none of them have proved that popular, but that's probably becuase > you have to be connected to the net and mostly have to play the music on > the PC (the Slimdevices Rhapsody serives is an exception). Agree here, too. If it were not for my Squeezeboxen I wouldn't subscribe to Pandora; I don't listen to mucis on my computer much. >Would you pay > $20 a month for all the music in the world if it included the ability to > copy it to your iPod? I think many would... I wouldn't, but certainly others might. > > It's also perfect for Apple becuase the security around making sure the > music on the portable player expires when the subscrciption expires DRM certainly benefits from a closed eco-system. Still, I predict this will be hacked so you can save movies in virtually no time. I guess we'll see. Kevin _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
