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iTunes v. Napster

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I don't know if this has been discussed yet here at the forums, but Napster has been mentioned in the news a lot lately. And now that they're publicly traded and fully concentrating on music, do you feel they pose a threat to iTunes?

Case in point, they'll be around even whilst losing money. Roxio (former parent co. now trading under NAPS) sold their software operation for $72.3M and has over $130M in the bank... more then enough breathing room to fully impliment their digital music enterprise.
 

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As I understand it Napster is in the music business for the money. Whereas Apple's iTunes is more for selling hardware (i.e. iPod).
 
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rman said:
Whereas Apple's iTunes is more for selling hardware (i.e. iPod).

which they make to help sell Macs which have a much higher marginal profit
 
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I prefer iTunes, I've used Napster and I found it so unnecessarily complicated.
 
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edgefusion said:
I prefer iTunes, I've used Napster and I found it so unnecessarily complicated.

Very true. iTunes is very simple to use. Unfortunately I've never used Napster so I don't have a say regarding that service.
 
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I really find it very difficult to believe anything is as easy as itunes... ive helped alot of my pc friends who had a problem because they think its some elaborate thing to convert a song to mp3 or similar. to often they try to make it more difficult and when they see its just one click they are like... oh .. ***.. thats too easy.
 

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