Comments on: Apple Working on Unlimited Downloads for iPhone and iPod?

By: Curt

Curt — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:07:14 +0000

The music industry is the one losing money now. They need to do anything they can to increase the amount of money flowing to them. Basically the music industry needs to cash in on the popularity of the ipod, and pull people away from file sharing sites like limewire.

By: maikel

maikel — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:53:10 +0000

If this turn out to be true, I hope they dont limit it to just music. But also include music video and even movies.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:55:09 +0000

It will probably work like the zune pass… just buy the effin music people…

By: wild homes

wild homes — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:51:55 +0000

Welcome to some wild speculation, I see. Has anyone, anywhere, approached music consumers with anything like a plan as progressive as all-you-can-eat no strings attached iTMS? Come on, use your heads. Why on earth would Apple do this? It would be a money-losing proposition relative to the business model they have in place now. This is most likely a rental service, or some kind of unlimited streaming wifi radio. Apple has a hard enough time keeping the majors happy as it is– EMI needed to RAISE prices for the less-DRM’d versions, but suddenly Apple is just going to talk all the majors into a new, less profitable business model?

Hello, shenanigans?

By: PointBlank

PointBlank — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:36:22 +0000

Unlimited downloads that have no time expiration make no sense. I could sign up for one month, go on a few marathon download sessions, and thereby own hundreds of CDs for $7. How can any business support that? Don’t get your hopes up.

Instead, it’s probably some type of “rental” or subscription model for that price.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:45:53 +0000

It depends on whether you mean “unlimited downloads” or “subscription service” which are two very different things. I’d pay up to about 20 bucks a month for an all-I-can-eat download plan if the downloads were indistinguishable from what I get from the iTMS now. I’m not interested in a subscription service at any price.

By: Seabass

Seabass — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:22:52 +0000

$7 TO $10. It’s about what I pay.

By: chad

chad — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:19:57 +0000

500 a year? for 25 cds? at ten bucks a pop?

you would pay double your old cost for unlimited? I thought the point of getting an unlimited deal is to save money.

I would pay 100 a year.

By: Maurice

Maurice — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:13:02 +0000

id be willing to pay up to 500 bucks flat rate for unlimited downloads for a year and i can keep the files as long as i want, i buy anywhere from 25 to 50 CDs a year so it would be worth it

By: Dat Dude

Dat Dude — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:51:05 +0000

Limewire dude…. unlimited all the time!!

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:40:44 +0000

I’m with Matheis, no time limit on the files and unlimited downloads would easily be worth $20 to $25 a month. I spend that much or more now just getting two or three albums a month.

By: Matheis

Matheis — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:44:29 +0000

If the downloads would expire, then I’m not interested regardless of price. Even with DRM protection, I would pay around $20/month for unlimited iTunes downloads.

By: james

james — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:32:06 +0000

@ Cesar, a time restriction wouldn’t be so bad because its unlimited. Let’s say if it is set up like the apple movie rental service and then erases itself after X many days, just download it again because you have already paid for unlimited service. A pain in the rear, but that’s just my opinion of a view around it.

By: Cesar

Cesar — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:02:46 +0000

$7 to $8 for unlimited downloads on iTunes?
I tell ya, I am not the biggest iTunes fan, but for that kind of price, I’ll be all over that!

Though we all know the files will be DRM protected, I certainly hope that there will be no time restrictions on them. Now that would not be worth it.