To beat iTunes, you need to offer something significantly better than iTunes... not just different or slightly better. I don't know how they are going to do that with audio files. Even normal 128Kb iTunes files sound acceptable to most people.
Unless you have permanently exclusive songs that iTunes will never get. This is just a licensing agreement -- so are these songs available to iPod owners? If not, what's the point? Will I have to use Rhapsody's crummy software with a crummy Windows Audio music player?
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Seriously, does anyone think this is going to work?
NO !
My 1c
To beat iTunes, you need to offer something significantly better than iTunes... not just different or slightly better. I don't know how they are going to do that with audio files. Even normal 128Kb iTunes files sound acceptable to most people.
Unless you have permanently exclusive songs that iTunes will never get. This is just a licensing agreement -- so are these songs available to iPod owners? If not, what's the point? Will I have to use Rhapsody's crummy software with a crummy Windows Audio music player?