Comments on: A Question for iPod Users

By: Antony Mayfield

Antony Mayfield — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:06:47 +0000

Different situation in Europe. We don’t have Zunes and can’t say we feel like we’re missing out that much.

We do have Spotify though.

I pay $16 a month (or thereabouts) for Spotify – works the same. Downloads stuff to my iPhone and laptop. It’s great and I would never want to stop paying… Every now and again I buy an album too – something rare, or that I want to share more easily.

Apple’s allowed the iPhone app here in the UK and – given its strong negotiating position with rights hldrrs- I would imagine will offer a similar service at some point…

By: John

John — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:02:44 +0000

I guess for me the over-arching issue is convenience. I own an iPhone… I have my apps, phone, and music all in one spot. Granted, it’s only 30GB and nowhere near big enough for all my music, but I”m OK with that. I can’t listen to everything anyway… I just carry the 20GB or so I am into at the time.

Neither am I a major downloader… 3 albums one month, nothing for 2 months, etc.

It really depends on what you want and need. Me? I’m a minimalist by nature, and like to have my devices do more than one thing to keep down clutter.

By: Nichole

Nichole — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:20:41 +0000

I like to support new and upcoming artists so I download my music from jamendo.com. All legal music. All 100% free.

It doesn’t matter what I used to listen to it. That’s good math right there. I guess Apple and Microsoft both lose.

By: John W

John W — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:53:36 +0000

Also, many if not most songs are still .99

I’m not sure how they pick and choose, almost all songs are DRM free now that I see/buy, but some are .99 some are 1.29

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Zune HD Goes Social » Matt Singley | Social Media Optimization — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:09:39 +0000

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By: Matt Singley

Matt Singley — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:00:03 +0000

@ John W Actually…

You can keep 10 songs per month, DRM free. That comes pretty close to paying for the $15/month fee when comparing to the iTunes rates of $1.29/song. Thanks for the comment John, to each his own!

By: Lowell

Lowell — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:46:01 +0000

Love the Zune, anticipating the Zune HD, but very disappointed that the Zune Marketplace/subscription service is STILL not available in Canada, and can’t find any info on an ETA. So for Canadians, the Zune isn’t as attractive as the iPod when you want to buy new content.

By: John W

John W — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:25:39 +0000

Wonder where the math goes when you look past a single year?

And not just taking your math and multiplying by ten. I’ve got an iPod that is ancient, and much newer ones. They all have the same music, and if I decided now, to stop buying music, they’d all still have music that I could play.

I think your math also doesn’t tell a true story.

Sure if someone buys crazy amounts or even non crazy amounts of music, they pay a lot, but when they stop buying music, all the music they’ve bought up to that point it there’s to keep paying.

Math and statistics are funny in that they can tell any store any way, it just depends on the POV of the story teller.

interesting post and too each their own, but I’m not bad at math or stubborn, and prefer my devices to not be poop brown, LOL

By: John

John — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:50:00 +0000

Matt, Your just suffering still from that glass of water . Really though you guys are music addicts and a Zune makes total sense. I just don’t listen to that much music and I love my itouch.
Good reposting!

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