Nokia’s stab at an iTunes competitor, Ovi Music Unlimited, has spun its last track in most major markets. The subscription service never really took off here in the US, despite support from the Big Four record labels, and folded for a plethora of reasons:
Reasons behind the lackluster performance include use of older supporting handsets for the product at its launch, digital rights management (DRM) software that tied downloaded music to the device and a difficult to understand product offering.
Current customers will maintain their access to the service until their current subscription expires, and some markets – China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey and South Africa – will continue to offer six-month or 12-month subscriptions.
So another iTunes competitor drops out. Your move, Spotify! Please make it quickly. [Reuters]
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 5:09 PMIt hasn’t dropped out. Where does anything say that? Ovi Music is still there and you can buy songs just the same as you can from iTunes. Also these are also DRM free. Only the unlimited service has DRM otherwise you would have as much music as you want on any device anywhere.
I don’t see iTunes offering a way to download as much music as you want for 12 months for one set price. And Apple definitely hasn’t bundled it with the iPhone.
Seriously, you’d think a site like this would at least know what they are talking about when it comes to this. Coincidently, my subscription to Ovi Music Unlimited coincidently runs out today. When I got it bundled with my phone it was called Comes With Music and I can tell you I have definitely used it. For the $350 I paid for my phone and the sub, I’ve downloaded more than that just in music.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 5:13 PMOhyeah, that’s right, double coincidently!
Fuck I hate it when you do this gizmodo, not even knowing what you’re talking about.