"We'll make money on the ads" LOL riiiiiight Redmond. The key to making money from adverstising is great click through. This MSN Music site is an abomination...unless it drastically improves there won't be enough hits to generate money on ads.
Here's the truth. Inertia is hard for anyone to overcome..standard physics apply...if Apple maintains %60 marketshare of the legal downloads by year end 2005 the race is over for all intents and purposes. Microsoft has just over a year to skyrocket and judging from what I see their service is nowhere near the quality required.
All the koolaid drinking PC journalists in the world can will people to use such a crappy service. I'm sorry but there is no Microsoft Mystique here. End of 2005 there will be over 300 million purchased iTMS tracks. There will be home players and more car players. Apple just needs to execute very well for the next 18 months and inertia grants them the keys to this "dream machine" for a long time.
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