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Napster didn't exactly install new faith in its sagging stock with the following pronouncement regarding the iPhone:
"Our software is not compatible with the iPod music player, the current equipment market leader, nor do we expect it to be compatible with the iPhone cell phone," Napster said last month in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. "If we cannot successfully design our service to interoperate with the music playback devices that our customers own ... our business will be harmed."
Harmed?! If you "don't expect" it to be compatible, and you have no one on the payroll who can set you straight, maybe you hired too many former BurnLounge interns. Oh, but wait! Later in the release, it reads: "Look on the bright side: There's always the shiny brown turd."
iPhone Incompatibility Could Hurt Sales, Napster Warns [Information Week via Contentinople]
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I have heard of this "Napster". Can I get free music there?
Wow, interent Seppuku.
Napster: Hey, free market, why don't you just change a little so we can make more money?
consumers: ooh, pretty screen!
Napster: ...crap
that's what happens when the most popular player is locked down to a single format, and you can't sell your service in a form that's not completely crippled.
Napster as a subscription model was crap, because they can't possibly compete with Apple. (unfortunately, the better players aren't Apple and they all work with Napster, but for whatever reason people prefer more expensive shiny Apple players over cheaper and better Creative/Sandisk/etc players?)
really, no services that aren't tethered to a specific model of player will ever succeed thanks to Apple convincing people that you have to use a subscription/download service that comes with your player based on the Itunes model. Yay stupid consumers!
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