Reading about Napster search for a new business model I realized that all this time Apple was right about refusing to turn itunes into a suscription service. All analysts were talking about how Apple was missing the most profitable oportunity without suscriptions and how those services will destroy itunes. Now the news is that being into the suscription business wasn’t so profitable, worst those services were burning money, what would do suscribed to a services that don’t let you put your music in your ipod? Nothing, and that was what Napster and friend were doing, nothing.

Now everybody is turning to a new business model, a model that will let you listen your music everywhere in an itunes like interface services that will store your selection and let you share it, but not dowload it, so expect some dumb ass analysts tell you that Apple will lose market if it doesn’t let users have its music saved online.

People, what make Apple successful in the portable music space is the combination of good service and good hardware if one of the two fails then the whole experience will fail, Napster could have a nice approach, but not good hardware to support it.

Long live napster….

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