According to a new study by Ipsos' TEMPO Digital Music Brandscape, despite the emergence of Amazon, Apple's iTunes platform still managed to gain market share in the increasingly crowded legal net music store crowd.
iTunes moved to 57 percent market share, up from 50 percent last year at this time, and Amazon's DRM-free store moved into second place with 9 percent share, a large number ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Leningrad: See? Then why isnt the RIAA happy?
Because Apple told them that the were not going to price fix their media by selling "rip off" bundles, and by increasing the cost for popular media, this is why certain members of the RIAA blocked Apple from selling their media DRM free while opening up stores of their media without DRM at a lower cost.
It's kinda like what Tesco's is doing in the UK, drive down prices to force out the competition then once they are the winners whack the prices right up.
Originally posted by Leningrad: See? Then why isnt the RIAA happy?
Because Apple told them that the were not going to price fix their media by selling "rip off" bundles, and by increasing the cost for popular media, this is why certain members of the RIAA blocked Apple from selling their media DRM free while opening up stores of their media without DRM at a lower cost.
It's kinda like what Tesco's is doing in the UK, drive down prices to force out the competition then once they are the winners whack the prices right up.
Everyone hates big business unless its Apple. Then all of the sudden DRM and monopolies are the coolest things in the world.
Its good to see Amazon doing well. I download all my MP3s from their plus they sell physical CDs for like $9 or less.
I own an iPod... I do not purchase from iTunes though, the few songs I have gotten from there were from the promotional caps pepsi gave out a while back for free music from there... In which I immediatley burned the songs to a cd and reripped them to mp3's...
