Comments on: Yahoo Music … Playing in Mono

By: dano

dano — Fri, 13 May 2005 00:52:33 +0000

$60 is sweet… no more looking for the darn CDs that aren’t where they are supposed to be, and no more ripping! Yippie, erh, Yahoo!.

So, I guess I got lucky, because my PDA and phone both work with Yahoo! Unlimited (and I got both for less than the cost of an iPod).

I guess it’s Apple vs. the world. Haven’t we seen this before?

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 12 May 2005 20:36:59 +0000

Oh i think it is perfectly justifable expense. i think it takes out napster and real out of the equation. i think apple will launch something like this as well, it is a matter of timing.

By: pb

pb — Thu, 12 May 2005 19:50:16 +0000

$60 a year is going to be pretty easy to justify for having full access to 1 million tracks for a year even if iTunes remains your primary listening platform.

In the WMA world, Yahoo’s service appears that it can “win”. For iTunes users, the Yahoo service will be a nice complement until Apple rolls out something similar.

All the cmplaints about owning vs. renting are moot. We’re talking $60 for a year! That’s one inexpensive dinner for 2. Or a nosebleed seat at a mediocre concert!

By: whatevernevermind

whatevernevermind — Thu, 12 May 2005 16:55:00 +0000

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog � Yahoo Music … Playing in Mono

I composed this post about the state of the online music stores and digital downloading. I was in the process of editing when I started reading Om’s take on Yahoo music. Following the read, I decided to just scrap the