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Subscription service?, September 30, 2009
By OhStudios

"Ignoring the subscription service is a tremendous problem with this review. That's a HUGE differentiator. At $15/month you can download most of the songs in their library and even put them on a supported MP3 player or cell phone as long as the subscription is kept active. Do the math on that: 12 months x $15= $180. With iTunes you would have bought 180 songs. With Napster you could have downloaded and listened to MILLIONS (not that you'll have time to, but you could!).

As for the interface, a PC user will have the same problem trying to figure out his new iMac and vice-versa; when you switch cell phones you're having to learn a new interface; do you REALLY know how to use your microwave?

If you (legally) download more than 180 songs a year and you only use your iPod for music you are wasting money. Napster definitely needs to catch up on the video end, but if Apple let loose and supported DRM WMAs it would face serious competition. That's why that will never happen. And, unfortunately, the Zune wasn't the iPod killer Microsoft hoped for."

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