[CUBE] itunes 4-Where to now?

[akiang at att.net]

perhaps that might be true years down the line, but we're definitely not at the 
point where downloading music can compete effectively with buying CDs from a 
store.
- most people in the US still don't have broadband.  (i think i read in the NYT 
that 40% of people in the US still don't use computers!)  on a dial-up, it 
takes about 5-10 minutes to download a 5-minute song via the iTunes store and 
that's really tedious even for 1 song.
- as it stands right now though, downloaded music (even from the iTunes store) 
doesn't have the same quality as uncompressed music on a CD.  most people may 
not hear a difference, but there are a number who do (or think they do).


> On 2003-05-01 09:30, Sean Terrill wrote:
> 
> But books != music. There are distinct reasons why, with books, some (most)
> people prefer the old medium; you hold it in your hands to use it. With
> music, the medium is irrelevant; as long as the music is coming from the
> speakers, who cares what the medium is?
>