Samsung to launch online music download service
posted Oct 30th 2005 11:00AM
Guess Samsung's drive to be a major digital music player playa — fueled by their breakup with Apple over the two companies' NAND joint-venture and getting pinned by the Korean FTC for those alleged deep discounts on flash memory on the iPod nano — must've left 'em hungry for revenge or something, because now Apple's got yet another online music competitor with which to deal. That's right, the King of Korean Gadgets, Samsung, announced their plans to join the fray and open a new online music download service — but apparently not before one of their heads declared Samsung's own digital audio players superior to Apple's, and that once this is through they'll finally be able to take on the iPod. Um, okay. It is important to remember, however, this would make Samsung only the second prominent audio hardware manufacturer to open up an online music shop (we're not really counting Panasonic, since they just set up service with Loudeye). The straight deets of the business are as yet unclear, but given their hardware lineup we expect it to be yet another PlaysForSure-based service, similar to Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Napster To Go, Real Rhapsody To Go, and so on, and so forth. Seriously though, every day this company's looking a little bit more like Apple. Would you two quit the quarrelling and get a freaking room already?
So who's the first audio hardware manufacturer to open up an online store-- Sony or Apple?
Awesome song selection on that there Samsung player.
Weird Al rules!
i dont think it will be too hard to compete with the ipods hardware quality basically everyone has them beat in that already... itunes though is the only reason i own an ipod.
At least, Samsung can defeat all the Korean online music stores.
3>> Wow, iTunes is the only reason for you having it? iTunes is the only reason I'd never buy an iPod, battery life as well, we're talking 80th percentile for iTunes, terrible quality bought songs, no reason to bother buying when they're DRMed junk, the day a company comes out with a high quality DRM-free service is the day iTunes foundation will be rocked to it's core, but sadly that day is likely very, very far away.
iTunes Rules. I use it all the time. I love my ipod. I listen to it at work, in my car and when ever I am waiting for anything.
If anyone is interested in a closer look at the mini ipod I posted some pics here:
http://www.seidon.com/photos-ipod-mini-silver.htm
Since they stoped making this version I thought it would nice to have some pics of it archived.
Samsung's been trying to compete with Apple for quite some time. They make their own DAP's, but have relied on other online music stores. Now they're opening their own... big deal...
Unless they come up with an amazing piece of software that somehow manages to best iTunes (which is highly unlikely), not to mention build a DAP that has some substance, Apple will continue to dominate.
I heard chatter that Samsung may try to buy Napster and possibly help with the Sprint Service - using samsung phones.
I heard chatter that Samsung may try to buy Napster and possibly help with the Sprint Service - using samsung phones.
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How fitting that Gorog et al. are getting passed around like a $2 who--
*phone call..
See ya