iTunes Plus price drop, 'Today or tomorrow'

BNL FTW!


(Sorry, it had to be done.)

Thank you Amazon! :)

"And if you want to get nitpicky, the sound quality from iTunes+ (256 AAC) is superior to that of Amazon (256 MP3). I dare anybody to tell the difference"

Well you just contradicted yourself there, so which is it?

Amazon may be a force in the US market, but Amazon downloads are NOT sold to anyone in the world unless you have a USA address and a USA credit card. Amazon is quite happy to sell me DVDs, CDs, books, etc, but won't sell an mp3. (likewise SnoCap, etc etc) So one slight nice thing to say about iTunes is that they do cater for some of the rest of the world with their various country stores....

i'm not a bit music store user but i figure since i've hacked my way to 1.1.1, i figured i'd give the mobile music store a shot. worked great while buying the +version of iron and wines new album. i wish it worked over edge though, even if it would be slow....

And it's happened....
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/10/16/jobs-confirms-itunes-plus-price-drop-across-the-board

I'd like to see other songs drop in price as wel, or all of them go drm free.

I buy albums, not songs, so the single song price drop means nothing to me.

The bigger news is that they've expanded iTunes+ to some indie labels: Sub Pop, for example. Stuff like that aims square at eMusic (who doesn't even offer music from many "major" indie labels like Sub Pop).

And if you want to get nitpicky, the sound quality from iTunes+ (256 AAC) is superior to that of Amazon (256 MP3). I dare anybody to tell the difference, but some people go nuts for little technicalities like this.

(Unrelated: the weblogs inc commenting system is ass.)

I buy albums, not songs, so the single song price drop means nothing to me.

The bigger news is that they've expanded iTunes+ to some indie labels: Sub Pop, for example. Stuff like that aims square at eMusic (who doesn't even offer music from many "major" indie labels like Sub Pop).

And if you want to get nitpicky, the sound quality from iTunes+ (256 AAC) is superior to that of Amazon (256 MP3). I dare anybody to tell the difference, but some people go nuts for little technicalities like this.

Viva competition!