{"id":61,"date":"2005-07-11T13:19:45","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T20:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2005-12-23T20:53:52","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T04:53:52","slug":"students-prfer-itunes-over-free-napster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/11\/students-prfer-itunes-over-free-napster\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Prefer iTunes Over Free Napster"},"content":{"rendered":"

E-Commerce Times<\/i> reported a survey, Students Use iTunes, Even With Free Napster at Hand<\/a> which indicates that seven out of ten students will still get their music from Apple’s market-leading iTunes software even when they are offered a free service to Napster’s lame subscription model.<\/p>\n

\"Napster<\/p>\n

What does this say? Ease of use and good karma will prevail. Copycats like MSN Music<\/a>, Yahoo! Music<\/a>, Walmart Music<\/a> (yes, even Walmart is in the game), Buy.com Music<\/a>, Napster<\/a> and countless others continue to feed on Apple’s continued innovation. This is not to say that those other services may still have one thing or two to teach Apple.<\/p>\n

But will Apple take notice? Apple probably doesn’t care. It’s happy where it’s at right now… that is, until someone starts to steal its market share.<\/p>\n

A number of reports (here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>) are saying Dell will be partnering with Napster in an attempt to unseat Apple from its crown in the music download business. This represents the first serious attempt from a major company to target Apple’s market share. Given Dell’s sheer muscle and position in the hardware market, this might be somewhat damaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E-Commerce Times reported a survey, Students Use iTunes, Even With Free Napster at Hand which indicates that seven out of ten students will still get their music from Apple’s market-leading iTunes software even when they are offered a free service to Napster’s lame subscription model. What does this say? Ease of use and good karma … Continue reading “Students Prefer iTunes Over Free Napster”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geek-stuff","category-no-logo","category-society-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}