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?"
Depends on price paid (Score:1, Interesting)
Free or cheap, and I'm streaming it. My care for what happens after the point I heard it is in direct proportion to what I paid for it.
Anything more than pennies per song, and I expect to purchase it, sans DRM. Just the way I roll, and the only manner which seems ethical to me.
Re:Depends on price paid (Score:2, Interesting)
I realize, however, that my personal preference here is unlikely to count for much, since more money can be sucked from me under paid streaming.
Which costs less? (Score:4, Interesting)
I will, of course, download it, regardless of what the vendor wants to call it. But if it costs less for them to use the magic word "streaming", then by all means, they can do so.