(keitai-l) Re: Killer Apps, and Wecome to the (Flying) Monkey House

Streaming audio through the mobile phone to headphones
would probably soak up a lot of that 3G bandwidth, and it is,
to me, a much more likely use than video.

It could replace the walkman/discman/mp3 player (one less
thing to carry), it could offer a menu playlist (the only thing like
that in radio is call-in-request lines, though I believe that'll never
go away for other reasons), and, if you price it low enough, you
might hit something like the TCO for your average CD collection,
plus CD player plus tuner, leaving little (apart from room-level
amplification) that hasn't migrated into the network or onto
your mobile.  Best of all, you don't have to do any content
reformatting.

The RIAA should be happy for every yen or penny it gets
from any such scheme, but that won't prevent them from
obstructing things until they can get more than they have
coming.  If there's video in this future, it should be a
"commercial" from the artist(s) after every few plays,
saying "Hey, hit the 'micropayment' button on your
keitai, if you like us so much.  Don't forget to sign up
for our fan newsletter while you're at it...."

-michael turner
leap@gol.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt Sampson" <cjs@cynic.net>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 11:54 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Killer Apps, and Wecome to the (Flying) Monkey House


> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Michael Turner wrote:
>
> > [Lots of interesting stuff deleted.]
>
> You know, it occurs to me that the infrastructure being built for
> video, even if it doesn't really take off could possibly enable another
> application which we know is popular when conditions are right. If
> we've got all that bandwidth, and we eventually make it cheap enough,
> using it for portable streaming audio could really take off. We already
> know that people like portable audio (walkman, etc.), and there's a fair
> amount of interest in streaming audio on the net even amongst non-geeks
> (WinAmp, etc.)
>
> Of course, the counterforce here is that the RIAA and the record companies
> will be dead set on killing this, unless the consumer is paying by
> the song.
>
> cjs
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