Comments on: Record Labels and Mobile Music: Is It About Innovation, or Control? http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/05/12/record-labels-and-mobile-music-is-it-about-innovation-or-control/ 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: Who Needs A Ringtone To Tell Them A Call Has Ended? at MobHappy http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/05/12/record-labels-and-mobile-music-is-it-about-innovation-or-control/comment-page-1/#comment-4907 Who Needs A Ringtone To Tell Them A Call Has Ended? at MobHappy Wed, 17 May 2006 08:49:14 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/05/12/record-labels-and-mobile-music-is-it-about-innovation-or-control/#comment-4907 [...] On Friday, I mentioned how record labels are chronically unable to innovate, particularly when it comes to mobile music, beyond devising attempts to get people to pay for the same content over and over. Here some wonderful examples from a Reuters story on the music industry’s (misguided) high hopes for mobile: Within a matter of weeks, several wireless operators are expected to introduce musical “alert tones” — a snippet of a song lasting between two and five seconds, that users can assign to play when they receive incoming text messages and voice mail, similar to a ringtone. [...] [...] On Friday, I mentioned how record labels are chronically unable to innovate, particularly when it comes to mobile music, beyond devising attempts to get people to pay for the same content over and over. Here some wonderful examples from a Reuters story on the music industry’s (misguided) high hopes for mobile: Within a matter of weeks, several wireless operators are expected to introduce musical “alert tones” — a snippet of a song lasting between two and five seconds, that users can assign to play when they receive incoming text messages and voice mail, similar to a ringtone. [...]

]]> By: Lockergnome's Mobile Lifestyle http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/05/12/record-labels-and-mobile-music-is-it-about-innovation-or-control/comment-page-1/#comment-4791 Lockergnome's Mobile Lifestyle Sat, 13 May 2006 05:20:21 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2006/05/12/record-labels-and-mobile-music-is-it-about-innovation-or-control/#comment-4791 <strong>Record Labels and Mobile Music: Is It About Innovation, or Control?...</strong> With the growth of music over mobile devices, the article below certainly hit a timely topic: Is the music industry more interested in control than anything else?...... Record Labels and Mobile Music: Is It About Innovation, or Control?…

With the growth of music over mobile devices, the article below certainly hit a timely topic: Is the music industry more interested in control than anything else?……

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