The record companies also feel they can get more money than what Apple is basically giving them for free. They want to charge more for new songs and less for older songs.
I would like to see the back catalogs and never-before published stuff put into a "bargain bin" category but I don't think charging more for 'hot' songs is a good idea. And the bargain stuff can be two songs for 99 cents or two albums for 9.99.
I don't see what their problem is; they don't have to rely on Apple, they can use Musicmatch, Napster, Wal-mart, MSN, Real, etc. After all, they aren't locked into a proprietary format, right? And those sites are compatible with more players, right? So what their problem?
Answer: those sites suck and they don't cater to iPods. :-)
And those $2-3 dollar downloads are gonna go over like a ton of bricks. They are trying to use ringtone pricing for music? Silly rabbits, tricks are for kids.
When that one carrier starts selling that iTunes phone and the money starts rolling in, others will want a piece.
But cell phones are constantly changing; styles, colors, features, sizes. I'd rather be on the software side than the hardware side of that business.
Subscription based music downloads for a cellphone makes good sense; they've already got you hooked into a contract, what's another $10 a month to load it up with music? Unlike the Napster subscription plan, friends can't share account names and passwords with their cellphones; each phone has a unique phone number.
Apple could allow phone services to have a subscription model for their phones and just pay Apple a cut for the use of the iTMS.
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