Today Yahoo announced music at 79 cents a song, and the papers claim, as they like to do, that this will hit Apple right at its core. What they fail to properly mention is that to get 79 cents songs, you have to pay $7 a month (or $60/year) “subscription” to the Yahoo service (if I read it correctly.)
If that is true, then you would have to buy more than 35 songs a month ($7/20 cent difference) to hit the break even point of Apple’s service. Who buys 35 songs a month?
Also, Yahoo’s catalog is only “about” 1 million songs, while Apple claims more than 1.5 million and growing.
And while I am sure that Yahoo will make it work with an iPod, Apple’s does already, and it will be difficult to get all those iPod users to use a non-Apple service to feed their iPods.
I do not get it. How does this attack Apple’s CORE?
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