My experience has been that neither streaming nor downloading are all that
common in most of Africa. The most common distribution mechanism for
digital media are small shops that sell digital content to be loaded on a
BYO micro SD card (for phones.)

Bandwidth is too expensive and unreliable for streaming to be all that
popular.

That said, I am streaming music on Rdio while Debbie watches Netflix next
to me - in Johannesburg.

-- Charles


On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:

> What do 1980, 1989 and 2003 have in common? They were the peak sales years
> for LPs, cassettes and CDs respectively. After that, a very slight
> resurgence in vinyl aside, it was all downhill. Billboard magazine has an
> interesting piece in which they suggest that perhaps 2012 might join that
> list – ...
>
>
> http://9to5mac.com/2013/12/16/have-music-downloads-hit-their-peak-with-streaming-taking-over/
>

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