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...your mobile phone, and hold it so that it can pick up the tune. Within seconds, you'll get a text message that gives you the name of the artist and the song. MusicID, the brainchild of Musicphone and Shazam Entertainment, is available to AT&T Wireless subscribers for 99?? a call. --By Clara Ogden
Sometimes Steve Jobs is wrong. When he launched Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store in April 2003, for instance, he predicted it would sell 100 million songs within a year. As of last month, a little more than 50 million 99?? songs had been downloaded. Sometimes wrong is right enough, though. "I'm thrilled," he says. "It's been a great year." For a man whose marketing prowess is almost as brilliant as his imprint on the computer age, "great" is an understatement. His iTunes-to-iPod music strategy suggests a way to save the free-falling, Napster-knackered music...
...clearly not enough, at least not for Prince. Why else would he have launched his Musicology download store, an iTunes rip-off that makes his music available to the agnostic, non-NPG fan for 99?? a song? Why would he be touring with the come-on--aimed at all those slow-dancing Purple Rain thirtysomethings--that this may be the last time he will play the hits? Why would he have released Musicology both on his website and in record stores (on April 20) through a distribution deal with megacorp Sony...
...menus improve navigation. Dell also scores points for compatibility. The DJ will play all the MP3s and Windows Media files in your music collection--even protected files from the new Napster--and you can also access the Musicmatch music store, which has a huge selection of 99?? songs that you can buy to play on your computer, burn to CDs or transfer to the DJ player...
Jobs has another reason not to be concerned about the competition. "The dirty little secret of all this is there's no way to make money on these stores," he says. For every 99?? Apple gets from your credit card, 65¢ goes straight to the music label. Another quarter or so gets eaten up by distribution costs. At most, Jobs is left with a dime per track, so even $500 million in annual sales would add up to a paltry $50 million profit. Why even bother? "Because we're selling iPods," Jobs says, grinning...