Comment Why not club a baby seal while you're at it... (Score 1) 971
I mean, killing legal online music distribution would be that easy. You find a pricepoint people like (such at . 99 a track), then get people used to it. Then, the second the service starts to take off, you jack it up.
You don't even need to jack it up much. That quarter will do. You then manage to instantly alienate customers like me, who had finally come out of the illegal p2p services to pay for music because they realized it wasn't that bad.
And the thing to remember is that if you piss off customers like me, who were just getting used to the model in the first place, we are hard to get back. Don't expect us to come running back just because you lower it back down to .99 again. Nope...you'll have to go much lower; we'll want blood.
And more than 15 bucks for albums? In a lossy compressed format with DRM? Yeah. Sure.
You don't even need to jack it up much. That quarter will do. You then manage to instantly alienate customers like me, who had finally come out of the illegal p2p services to pay for music because they realized it wasn't that bad.
And the thing to remember is that if you piss off customers like me, who were just getting used to the model in the first place, we are hard to get back. Don't expect us to come running back just because you lower it back down to
And more than 15 bucks for albums? In a lossy compressed format with DRM? Yeah. Sure.
