Comments on: Ringtones Are Not Mobile Music, and Vice Versa http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2005/11/28/ringtones-are-not-mobile-music-and-vice-versa/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:31:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rudy De Waele http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2005/11/28/ringtones-are-not-mobile-music-and-vice-versa/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Rudy De Waele Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:41:11 +0000 http://p6.hostingprod.com/@mobhappy.com/blog1/?p=64#comment-73 Very good insight Carlo (again) on this mobile music topic. I agree that the moment users figure out (and they will soon) they can acces/buy/share mp3 tunes from different sources through different technologies (3G, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi) at different pricings, they will make their choices out of what's available, now this space is monopolised by the operators (and locked by their DRM solution) but this is going to change with the convergence of networks and my guess is once we're there, the users are not gonna choose the high pricing as we know now from cut-up songs marketed as mp3 clip ringtones... If the business keeps going like this, we all might end-up bying more CD's (again) and copy them to our different home devices for our relatives and friends (as we used to do), it might be cheaper in the end... but that could not have been the idea, not? Very good insight Carlo (again) on this mobile music topic. I agree that the moment users figure out (and they will soon) they can acces/buy/share mp3 tunes from different sources through different technologies (3G, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi) at different pricings, they will make their choices out of what’s available, now this space is monopolised by the operators (and locked by their DRM solution) but this is going to change with the convergence of networks and my guess is once we’re there, the users are not gonna choose the high pricing as we know now from cut-up songs marketed as mp3 clip ringtones… If the business keeps going like this, we all might end-up bying more CD’s (again) and copy them to our different home devices for our relatives and friends (as we used to do), it might be cheaper in the end… but that could not have been the idea, not?

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