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April 26, 2007

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Steve-o: No iTunes music subscriptions

Posted Apr. 26, ’07, 9:12 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | iTunes » iTunes Store

Stevie J.The Steveness himself, Vinnie Jobserino, took time out of his busy iSchedule to talk to Reuters after yesterday’s financial results. While a lot of his comments were mere reiterations of prior remarks (“We’ve said by the end of this year, over half of the songs we offer on iTunes we believe will be in DRM-free versions,” Jobs said. “I think we’re going to achieve that.”), he did offer a tidbit on rumors that iTunes would incorporate a subscription model for music.

“Never say never, but customers don’t seem to be interested in it,” Jobs told Reuters in an interview after Apple reported blow-out quarterly results. “The subscription model has failed so far.” […] “People want to own their music,” he said.
Of course, we know that Steve sees music and video differently, so that still leaves plenty of wiggle room for a subscription video model.

Meanwhile, as the negotiations with record companies continue for the next month, Jobs is said to be pushing hard for the rest of the labels to follow EMI’s example and drop Digital Rights Management technology. Give ‘em hell, Steve.

[via MacNN]


1 Comments

Stefan said:

Music subscriptions are not the way to go, who wants to spend time programming their own "radio station" when you can have a playlist with the music you own and love? And as a way to discover new artists they offer no stickiness whatsoever, a song passes by without you really knowing who it was from.

Video is different, subscription video works well... maybe they will add this feature so you can end up having your own TV Show schedule all streamed from the iTunes store.

One can only dream

April 26, 2007 10:25 AM

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