New Offer to Target the iTunes Store

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2008-10-07/#8970

It has been a long time that Majors did not launch a new project or attack aiming to target iTunes Store leadership for online music store. Universal announced that it will offer its DRM-free catalog on the website Dada.net. Tracks will be available as pool of 15 songs for 10 USD, so 0.66 USD per track, 30% cheaper than on the iTunes Store! Yes, but... you will need to pay 10 USD per month as a monthly fee to be able to get the 15 songs from the catalog, so, if you do not purchase more than 15 songs, the price per track will be 1.33 USD, so 40% more expensive than on the iTunes Store!! Doing the math correctly and you will notice than you will need to purchase at least 3 pools of 15 songs each to get a price slightly cheaper than on the iTunes Store... In addition, if you do not purchase 1 pool during one month, you can not transfer the monthly fee of 15 USD... IS this new system a perfect tool invented to foul customers??
Universal and Sony catalogs are available on Dada.net as the website is a joint venture of both Majors.

I'm not worried

that doesn't sound all that great of a deal

yea, i agree, you hardly save anything

we'll see if this turns out to be anything

i don't think it will

probably won't

yeah, i don't think this will threaten itunes very much. we will see though

i guess we'll find out soon

yeah, only time will tell

let's hope that this doesn't hurt itunes though

i think this deal is just too complicated

it does seem that way

i don't think apple is worried about this

we will have to wait and see how it does

i agree, i dont think it will hurt apple that much. i dont think many people will jump on this bandwagon.

i don't think so either. we'll see though

like you said, everyone wants to copy apple

this isn't exactly copying

yeah, it really isn't, they're just trying to comptete

key word there is 'trying'.....they can try to compete, but i dont think they will really be on the same level as apple and the itunes store.

yeah i dont think so either

me either, i mean the itunes store has apps for iphone/ipod touch, movies, movie rentals, music, ipod games, just about everything you could want from an online store

i think this is just about the music part of the store

hmm