Yahoo is the king of Internet searching and now they will be the king of digital music.

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Biff wrote:
Yahoo is the king of Internet searching and now they will be the king of digital music.

I thought Google was the Kind of searching and Yahoo was the Kind of...uhm...organizing lists of things...or something?

We've heard this before.

MSN, though smaller than Yahoo, was supposed do the same, but we've not heard much since it's official launch in Oct.

AOL, the other portal, still uses iTunes for downloads and Musicnet for subscription.

So will Yahoo kill off the Real, Napster, and the rest of the WMA stores?

Face it Mac Fanatics, consumers don't want to be locked into a single online music store and music player combination. As the choices increase, buying an iPod will be limited to Mac idolotors. Yahoo subscription service like Napster will be a hit, unlimited songs for about the price of one CD. Paying for each song you listen to is lemming-like behavior.

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RealityCheck wrote:
As the choices increase, buying an iPod will be limited to Mac idolotors.

Assuming the iPod goes through no changes in the future...yes.

I could see how someone might think all development of this product line will come to a abrubt halt. I mean, it's the only logical choice, right?

Apple's legal team can already smell the blood and are beginning to circle. If YahooTunes is too close to iTunes I'm betting Apple will release the dogs.

Competition is fine, blatant rip offs will get you sued.

Come! on! Yahoo! innovate! don't! duplicate!

in about 10 million years. and all the music services will be DOOMED!!!! mark words

maybe then, ONE of your thousand of reason why apple is DOOMED will come true.

right now your really just a sad thingy on the web.

i have a prediction too!!
Tell your family and "friends" how you spend your day by pointing them to your posts here, and they will shake their heads in and sigh in saddness for you.

"consumers don't want to be locked into a single online music store and music player combination."

Then why did consumers make iTMS the dominant digital music store? Why did consumers make iPod the best selling brand of MP3 player? There are other music stores and other MP3 players they could have chosen, but the majority chose Apple because the majority wants Apple. Check reality, RealityCheck.

"Yahoo subscription service like Napster will be a hit"

Music subscription services already had their debuted quite awhile ago. They weren't a hit. It's alittle late to predict them a success.

"Paying for each song you listen to is lemming-like behavior."

Saying subscription services will beat the iTMS when there's no factual basis in doing so is lemming like behavior. Paying for each song you listen to is called "the winning business model".

By the way, here's an interesting fact; You're calling most of Napster's subscribers lemmings, as most of Napster's subscribers pay for each song they listen to. You're great at thinking things through, huh?

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"unlimited songs for about the price of one CD"

Songs that have a strict limitation on their lifespan for the cost of one CD every month, forever, or they'll delete themselves. Versus songs from iTMS with an infinite lifespan and one-time payment. You can talk about the greatness of music subscriptions all you like, but the buying public already made their choice.

Yahoo! Launch has diminshed in my usage, both at work and at home. iTunes just works, both on Windows & on Mac.

On Windows, Launch only works on the wholy unsafe I.E., I perfer FireFox. On the Mac OS, Launch only works with an ancient Netscape4.7 for OS9. I can't get this speacial combination to work on my new Mini-Mac w/OS10.3 nor on my PowerTower G3 OS9.1.

Unless Yahoo! can bring me at least a duplicate in functionality, I don't care how much they inovate, I won't renew my subscription to Launch!

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Biff wrote:
Yahoo is the king of Internet searching and now they will be the king of digital music.

I highly doubt it. iTunes has momentum, marketshare and name recognition, while Yahoo still has everything to prove in this space.

Likely, Yahoo will be 'yet another music store', like Wal-Mart, Napster, etc.

Sarcasm

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Biff wrote:
Sarcasm

I'll see your sarcasm and raise you some mild contempt.

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Guest wrote:
in about 10 million years. and all the music services will be DOOMED!!!!

Well, it will be a lot more than 10 million years, more like 5 billion years, and it won't be a supernova. Only stars much larger than the Sun will supernova. They also live a lot less time. Stars like the Sun will end by becoming red giants for a while, then collapse into a white dwarf.

"subscription service like Napster will be a hit, unlimited songs for about the price of one CD"

That is a onetime charge only, right?
Yeah right. It's a total scam.