Comments on: Cingular Joins Mobile Music http://gigaom.com/2006/11/01/cingular-music/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:23:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: GigaOM » AT&T Gives Napster Away for “Free” http://gigaom.com/2006/11/01/cingular-music/#comment-71381 GigaOM » AT&T Gives Napster Away for “Free” Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:52:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/cingular-music/#comment-71381 <p>[...] already knew that AT&T had a deal in place with Napster for the company’s mobile music service. Now the companies are adding some promotional details of the plan. AT&T’s broadband and [...]</p> [...] already knew that AT&T had a deal in place with Napster for the company’s mobile music service. Now the companies are adding some promotional details of the plan. AT&T’s broadband and [...]

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2006/11/01/cingular-music/#comment-71380 Jesse Kopelman Thu, 02 Nov 2006 23:18:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/cingular-music/#comment-71380 <p>It is not that Cingular is the least agressive in rolling out new service, it is that they tend to just do a worse job of it than everyone else. They do all kinds of interesting things that they don't bother to market and let die on the vine (for example, EDGE kicked everyone else's ass for over a year before Verizon rolled out EVDO, but they never marketed it properly). Other things they market well, but don't but enough effort into product development (these are usually things where the service is tightly integrated with specific hardware, like the ROKR).</p> It is not that Cingular is the least agressive in rolling out new service, it is that they tend to just do a worse job of it than everyone else. They do all kinds of interesting things that they don’t bother to market and let die on the vine (for example, EDGE kicked everyone else’s ass for over a year before Verizon rolled out EVDO, but they never marketed it properly). Other things they market well, but don’t but enough effort into product development (these are usually things where the service is tightly integrated with specific hardware, like the ROKR).

]]> By: Nick Hawkins http://gigaom.com/2006/11/01/cingular-music/#comment-71379 Nick Hawkins Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:18:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/cingular-music/#comment-71379 <p>To me, this is two separate issues. What you'll see is Motorola/SE/Nokia/etc driving the market more than any carrier. If it's easy for someone to drop 4GB of music on their phone, you'll see some of that siphoning off the low-end MP3 players.</p> <p>Whether mobile carriers will make any money on this is another issue. Sprint's cost per song far outweighs the convenience surcharge of double the rate of iTunes. </p> <p>If Motorola didn't cripple their phone with that 100 song limit, you would have seen a siphoning of the iPod Nano/Shuffle market and help kickstart this industry. Oh well.</p> To me, this is two separate issues. What you’ll see is Motorola/SE/Nokia/etc driving the market more than any carrier. If it’s easy for someone to drop 4GB of music on their phone, you’ll see some of that siphoning off the low-end MP3 players.

Whether mobile carriers will make any money on this is another issue. Sprint’s cost per song far outweighs the convenience surcharge of double the rate of iTunes.

If Motorola didn’t cripple their phone with that 100 song limit, you would have seen a siphoning of the iPod Nano/Shuffle market and help kickstart this industry. Oh well.

]]> By: Vic http://gigaom.com/2006/11/01/cingular-music/#comment-71378 Vic Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:17:28 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/11/01/cingular-music/#comment-71378 <p>Finally carriers in the US are catching on. Check out www.p1sms.com an interactive radio product that should drive sales of these downloads on the fly.</p> Finally carriers in the US are catching on. Check out http://www.p1sms.com an interactive radio product that should drive sales of these downloads on the fly.

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