yahoo launches own music store

Yahoo plans on launching their own music store later in the 4th quarter. Yet another online music service. Wtf? I guess this can be great but until we can get everyone to play nicely it's going to be hard to really do something about it.

I mean, could you imagine if cd's did this when that technology came out? Having certain cd's play on certain players? It would have been retarded and the reach of cds wouldn't have been that great. I think the same thing is happenging with online music. If there was a way to make everyone use apples itunes then we'd all be happy!

Seriously...Apple's iTMS coupled with their iPods has really done a lot. Its just simple to use that even my grandmother knows how to use it! Other players have awkward navigation and the site to buy music is so convuluted and just plain user-unfriendly that I don't ever want to switch. But there are times when I do want to jump to another site b/c they have certain songs in their catalogue that iTMS doesn't have.

We'll see what happens in the years to come. Yahoo, MSN, I'll rue the day when google decides to sell music!

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yahoo to launch music service