Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Sony Launches Online Music Store
Posted by Kent Pribbernow in "NEWS" @ 08:00 AM
"Sony on Tuesday launched its online music store, throwing its hat into a ring that has been dominated for a year by Apple Computer's iTunes. As a competitor with significant resources--and a long list of music devices with which it hopes to rival the iPod--Sony's entry into the market could help change the dynamics of digital music sales. But Sony could also complicate the market for consumers, by selling music in yet another copy-protected technological format that is incompatible with any of the other services."
Somehow the entrance of Sony into this market is rather frightening to me. With its past mistakes with DRM and audio codecs that were half baked to say the least, I hold some fairly negative preconceptions about this move. And Sony still doesn't have a compelling audio device to leverage its music store. That's something that continues to give Apple the leading role in this young industry.
I think it's going to take Sony several more tries before they get this right.
Somehow the entrance of Sony into this market is rather frightening to me. With its past mistakes with DRM and audio codecs that were half baked to say the least, I hold some fairly negative preconceptions about this move. And Sony still doesn't have a compelling audio device to leverage its music store. That's something that continues to give Apple the leading role in this young industry.
I think it's going to take Sony several more tries before they get this right.
