Will You Stream Or Download Your Mobile Music? 175
mikp writes "In a David-and-Goliath style fight, small music companies are battling it out with established behemoths to see who can own the future of mobile music. Spotify, the Europe-based music streaming company, is about to launch its iPhone app and has plans to develop it for other mobile platforms soon. In a preview, Spotify shows how you can cache songs to your iPhone so that you don't always need a connection but the songs don't remain on your iPhone permanently. Nokia, on the other hand, has just announced two more music phones that will feature Comes With Music, an unlimited music-download service that involves a one time fee, which is part of the price of the CWM phone, and lets you download music for free (and you get to keep it) for a year. The question remains, are people more likely to stream or download music on their mobile phones?"
Re:I'll take what's behind Door 3, Alex. (Score:5, Funny)
Hey common guys. surely those companies that charge 20pence to send a 160 character message must be working their hardest to put together a great deal for those kids.
Re:I'll take what's behind Door 3, Alex. (Score:5, Funny)
But streaming/rental frees you from burdensome "ownership" responsibilities; you are as free as a bird to listen to whatever tracks the service provider lets you while they let you listen! Who wants to be able to keep things, or have unpopular music, anyhow? Ownership is slavery. DRM is freedom. Open access takes a lot of work and thought.
Hold on, let me go grab my Kindle so I can polish my "1984" references.
Hey! Where'd it go???
Re:I'll take what's behind Door 3, Alex. (Score:3, Funny)
I take offense to that! My father was Earl of Glastonbury, and my mother was a lady from Brighton.
Re:I'll take what's behind Door 3, Alex. (Score:3, Funny)
I'll take what's behind Door 3, Alex
You think the choices are between lady and tiger but it's really between lawyer and patent troll!
Re:ComesWithMusic ... Not in the U.S. It Don't (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, there's only 10 items in the list, and they're alphabetized. Did you read each one for 30 seconds to see if it said "United States"?
Did ... did anyone else just stare at this guy's post for 20 minutes only to realize that he agreed with me and is just as confused as I am?
So some of us have more efficient strcmp implementations than others, so what? I code Java so stop picking on me.
Re:I'll take what's behind Door 3, Alex. (Score:1, Funny)
Oh absolutely. I just have one question - Will this streaming service come with DJs? They are like surrogate friends who also happen to play cool music. Having nothing but song-after-song gets kinda boring.
There is already such a wireless streaming music service. It is available for free, in several music genres. Some refer to it as "Radio".