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NY Times does the research: proves my theory that Nokia Music Recommendation service is going to flop

By Stefan Constantinescu on Monday, December 11th, 2006 at 11:32 AM PST In Ideas and rants

At any given point, the cumulative number of songs sold
by the iTunes store has generally been about 20 times the cumulative
number of iPods sold, according to Forrester Research, the technology
consulting firm. That ratio has recently crept up to roughly 22 to 1,
as 1.5 billion songs have been sold. The figures were compiled from
public statements by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL).

The numbers suggest that iPods are not driving iTunes sales as much as early supporters may have expected.

“IPods are not sitting around generating dozens and dozens of
transactions every quarter,” said Josh Bernoff, a principal analyst for
Forrester Research. “People buy a certain number of songs, and then
they stop.”

Source: NY Times

The Apple iPod and its attached by the hip online store iTunes are the dominate players in the mobile music market. I said it less than a month ago,
and I’ll say it again, people steal music: 22 songs per iPod … that’s
pathetic. Everyone has and will continue to steal music, get over it.
Someone needs to create an application that makes Bluetooth sharing something as simple as making a phone call,
not only will this make sharing content easier but it will also
increase phone sales as the people without Bluetooth phones will feel
left out.

Waiting for developers to send me an email and exchange ideas, after
all I can’t develop, but I can sure think of things we really need
today.

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2 Comments on “NY Times does the research: proves my theory that Nokia Music Recommendation service is going to flop”

  1. I’m not so sure about your ‘people steal music’ remark . . . in my experience of iPod owners, most hardly get anywhere near filling up their iPods, what songs they do put on their iPods are largely ripped CDs.

  2. You have to hang around a college campus friend.

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