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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
They haven't "caught on" because they can't exist in a vacuum - they need to go hand in hand with the hardware, and the iPod has that market more or less locked up. Virtually impossible for any player to break into it, now or a few years back. If and when Apple offers a music subscription service, I think it will be a huge success and they'll see big numbers of people move toward it.
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I think initially you'd be right. If Apple launched subs, it would be giant at the beginning, but once the novelty wears off it would be a flat plain of mediocrity. I just don't see a mass market appeal for paying a monthly fee to keep music on your music player. Do they have their place? Sure, but that place isn't mass market. If it were, there are plenty of devices that supported the Plays for Sure DRM that should've soared. The hardware wasn't that poor compared to the iPod. If people wanted subs, they would've bought any device they could get them on.
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