Re:It's not the store, it's the licensing (Score 3, Informative)

So this is just a product announcement.

True, but it's a product announcement from Rob Lord, one of the two guys who started IUMA way back near the beginning of the web age. A product announcement from somebody with a history of creating products that were ahead of their time is worth paying attention to. He was running a hugely successful online music site 5 years before most of the world had even considered the idea.

As a former competitor of Rob's, I'd take him seriously; he knows what he's doing, at least with regards to technology. (He didn't know how IUMA was going to make money either; he probably should have thought more about that.) Of course there's no guarantee that Songbird will be a success, but based on Rob's track record, I'd say it'll be worth seeing what he comes up with.