I’m still waiting for Apple to “borrow” the song sharing feature from Zune. It’d be very useful on a dominant player. And according to this patent, it may be just around the corner.

Check out this article, especially the last paragraph:
[arstechnica.com]

For example, I can currently download songs through Zune Marketplace as part of my membership… if I want to actually own a song, I can also choose to then buy it for cash (or points, or whatever the hell they’re doing today).

The truth threshold is still low, though, because I think Napster has clearly demonstrated that you really can’t go much below $15 and still clear a profit. Every iteration of this type of plan has been a loss leader for the hardware – being #1, I don’t think Apple really needs to offer consumers any more incentive to try their product.

Something like emusic would never be an option, because they (to date, at least) are committed to an ownership model that would make the revenue per song too small for major labels.

The (un)popularity of subscription services is a bit unfair, since no subscription service has been compatible with the dominant device. I know a few people who have loved the IDEA of a subscription service, but would never try one because it doesn’t work with their iPod.

They should, then you could ask for a few “Gift cards” to subscribe to iTunes all year and get free music!!

Oh wait, I can do that already without iTunes.. or asking for gift cards.. wait doesn’t this bring us back to “downloading mp3s is killing the industry” why don’t they GIVE us options like this??

Even a monthly fee with so many songs (say 15 songs for 10 bucks) I don’t see who wouldn’t subscribe to that, or is that not making them enough money? psshh screw iTunes back to torrents/rapidshare I go..