Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Greed, locks strangle US mobile music market

Another victory for the RIAA: As more and more phones and mobile devices become capable of playing back music, the industry has a chance to make a little money before the iPhone-style model of the proper internet on mobile devices becomes the norm and makes the walled-garden obsolete.

But what are they doing? managing to strangle the market at birth. Only 14% of Americans surveyed by Jupiter research want to buy music on their phones; the rest are put off by high prices and complicated DRM rules.


2 comments:

Duncan said...

hang on - the iPhone *isn't* a walled garden? You can't even download MP3s on it!

Something like the N95 would be a better comparison :)

Simon Hayes Budgen said...

Fair point, Duncan, at the moment the phone part is locked down, but the iPod bit you can load anything on to, and the model of full-web-on-phone is the way things are going.

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