So that twinge of envy that cast over me whilst fondling a New Yawker’s iPhone wasn’t the only thing of which I should be jealous…Gotta love the bar graph on Thought Balloons today. Arg. Hosing confirmed, we are paying insane wireless rates, not just for data, but overall regular service bare-bones stuff….& I appreciate the 3rd point about how this is impeding Canucks from test driving sophisticated handsets, because we’re tapped after we pay our service programs…
Anyway, progress and innovation continues south of the border - eMusic’s deal w/ AT&T received press from Billboard & the NY Times.
It’s not rocket surgery, but for some reason, we won’t be seeing (in the near future, at least) a subscription-model system North of the 49th on the mobile platform for music - either through an indie Mp3 retailler like eMusic or big-label library iTunes. The package deal lets AT&T mobile users buy five songs for $7.49 - with mobile & PC platforms sent out to the subscriber - DRM-free, no less.
Unlike the CDN experience, AT&T is checking its ego at the door & not selling through a self-branded service, they are allowing eMusic Mobile to run the whole shebang - all 2.7 million songs. Imagine if Rhapsody or PureTracks’ libraries were opened up to our mobile market? No such luck.
Anyway, that’s my un-patriotic rant for the day. For more anti-DRM fodder, check out today’s Guardian for Cory Doctorow’s piece on governments’ faulty logic behind framing DRM as a moral safeguard vs. piracy (as it just prevents people from doing legit things with goods they have bought, borrowed or rented)….
peace
meegs
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