Much as Google dominates search and search revenue, Apple's iTunes dominates legal music downloading. Aside from ringtones, it isn't so clear to me how well mobile service providers will do with their own music-selling efforts. Every little bit helps, I suppose. But music doesn not look anything like a "killer app" for mobile service providers.
Friday, January 4, 2008
iTunes Dominates Downloads
Much as Google dominates search and search revenue, Apple's iTunes dominates legal music downloading. Aside from ringtones, it isn't so clear to me how well mobile service providers will do with their own music-selling efforts. Every little bit helps, I suppose. But music doesn not look anything like a "killer app" for mobile service providers.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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