Microsoft copies iTunes?
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heard a brief news piece on cnn headline news tonight that mentioned microsoft about to start pay per online music downloads.
whats up with that?
- HIVE70
Man, i saw this one coming. Micro$oft just loves to compete with every single thing on the planet. One day, their wont be a NASA... instead, their will be Micro$oft Space Administration.
- ********0
Apple rip.
M$ never invents, M$ buy$ invention$.
- mrdobolina0
before iTunes, it was all in the news that all of these companies were trying to design business models to sell music online, why be surprised that a huge player like microsoft would jump in. dont miss the forest for the trees.
- one2meny0
Wouldn't be the first time Bill copied Steve, wouldn't be surprised if he had a better business plan or liscensing scheme ready either.
- sexypixel0
I'd happily work for microsoft.
- ********0
i wouldn't refu$e $ome work by M$ either at this point.
- mrdobolina0
its much bigger than 'bill copying steve'
its business. shareholders to answer to and things like that. wow.
- sexypixel0
well at least microsoft made up their own name and didnt steal one from god.
*show stopper
- enobrev0
i have to agree.. to see this as m$ biting apple is as shortsighted as it gets.
This is the biggest opportunity for any company to jump on, and most obvious frontier, and M$ has been busy working on the movie industry before it tried to lock down the music download business.
the only company that seems to be late is the industry itself.
- i3i2and0n0
thats pretty lame.
but its also like saying "hey there is company copying LEVI's and making jeans!"
- unknown0
so when will the rest of the computer using world realize software plagerism?
- enobrev0
well, if you want to get into software plagerism, the majority of apps that exist today are built on libraries that have been used for years by every other developer out there.
libraries are shared regularly, in order to provide quicker development times.
it's like saying that your usage of tables for layout is biting off of someone else. At the end of the day it's functionality, gui and service, but hardly the underlying idea behind the app.
If that were the case, Sharman Networks have been selling downlaodable music from a desktop app for a couple years now, i.e. apple takes a bite as well.
- mirola0
i find that fairly exciting that ms are getting into music download. you know for a fact that if it takes off they'll just buy up huge acres of record labels and monopolise the industry completely, oh wait... that would be shit.
- enobrev0
it's already shit.
- enobrev0
and strangely enough, it will get worse.
- mirola0
i dunno about that. i'm fairly optimistic that there will be loads of small sites/download programs that basically act like record labels who pick up artists they like, sell their mp3s and split it equally. artists would rather go with these sites because they get half the money instead of a shitty 11cents. all the bigger download programs will specialise in mass-marketted shitpop while all the other more independent sites will be selling quality stuff and loads of it.
i totally believe that the music industry will always be controlled by huge corporations, this we won't get away from as long as we live in a democracy, i just believe that more independent artists will start to take care of themselves and due to the increase in communication over the internet we will get access to them via networks of 'peer' listening.
at least, that's what i hope.
- sexypixel0
well isnt competition good. would you prefer a monopoly?
- mirola0
competition is good, yes.
- quamb0
competition is good- though it boggles the mind how microsoft remain to be successful.
XP is ookay, and office is great. but thats it. kapuut.
it anoyed me when icq slowly died due to microsoft slamming out messenger with windows.
will they ever do anything original? think they even have an r&d department?
and break into the video game market? whats with that?
- blend20
We had an electronic audio shop running with microsoft drm years before apple came up with this itunes shizniz. The only new thing is that microsoft is actually starting to sell stuff themselves. And considering that they have had windowsmedia.com out for ages it really isn't big news. The only thing that has slowed down electronic music sales is the a-holes at the music distribution companies who can not make up their mind.