Audio Interview: Nokia’s David Williams Unveils Key Components Of Music Services In The Pipeline

In William’s view, the device should be the entry-point to the
user’s preferred music store and overall music experience. It’s all
about on-device capacity. “So whether you want to search via artist,
create playlists, or search by genre (and) also then connect to your
selected music service -whether that be the operator’s (portal) or
third party services – it’s all available from a touch of a button
within the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) music product range currently.” He continued: “We’re
working with operators all the time on their music services today, and
…the fact that we’re not going down let’s say a closed proprietary
path here - in terms of formats or DRM- (creates) the option for the
consumer to use their Nokia product as their music player of choice,
and access their store of choice via that device, or at least have
products that they’ve bought from the store of choice playable on that
device.”

Source: Moco News

Let’s do some simple math shall me. Take the number of songs sold on iTunes versus the number of iPods sold. Divide these two numbers and what do you find out … the average iPod has less than 20 legally purchased songs! How else do you think kids are filling up those massive 40 plus gigabyte players? Piracy!

I’m listening to this podcast right now, and I’m feeling bad. Nokia is spending so much to make sure this takes off, but it won’t.