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Re: IPod Could Lose Cachet as Competing Devices, Services Arrive
Posted by: Gene Koprowski 2006-02-06 07:31:22

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Is Apple's iPod about to lose its cachet? Last month, Verizon Wireless launched a new service seeking to provide its customers with an easy way to download digital music from their own mobile phones. The marketing message was clear: Why carry more than one portable device when you already have a mobile phone? Sales of digital music -- online music plus mobile music and ring tones -- within Western Europe and North America accounted for an estimated 13.9 percent of total consumer spending on music last year.

Re: IPod Could Lose Cachet as Competing Devices, Services Arrive
Posted by: setatakahashi 2006-02-06 07:32:50 In reply to: Gene Koprowski

Forget the mobile. It takes ages to download a full song and air-time costs a lot.