On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 11:12:18PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
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> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Helen Keegan - BeepMarketing Ltd wrote:
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> > It seems to me that there is an opportunity (subject to getting
> > the battery life right), to make mobile handsets the new walkmans
> > by taking advantage of the media slot.
> > ...
> > I'd love to see 3G being successful but it's going to take a very
> > long time to change ingrained habits such as buying music from
> > record shops.
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> But the biggest problem with using the built-in media slot is the cost
> of the media. A CD costs a few cents; with case, insert and everything
> the cost has been well under a dollar for some time. A 64 MB card is
> currently about 3000 yen retail, and I'd estimate, even with the price
> falling by half every eighteen months, it's going to be four to five
> years before one could even think about selling songs on electronic
> media rather than optical.
<snip>
Even once the cost has dropped a lot, packaging recorded memory cards
will be a loser unless there is massive consolidation in card formats.
What about integrating card writers into listening posts in music
shops? (I'm not sure how the user should pay - at the counter or at
the post?) If singles are disposable - and I suspect they are for many
people - then it doesn't matter that you can't fit many on a card
because you can erase old ones to make room.
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Received on Mon Apr 28 23:15:39 2003