Comments on: Interview: Rdio CEO Says Subs Will Boom (But First, That Apple Problem) http://paidcontent.org/2011/02/18/419-interview-rdio-ceo-says-subs-will-boom-but-first-that-apple-problem/ The economics of digital content Sat, 18 May 2013 13:43:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Loschky http://paidcontent.org/2011/02/18/419-interview-rdio-ceo-says-subs-will-boom-but-first-that-apple-problem/#comment-82562 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:51:24 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/02/18/419-interview-rdio-ceo-says-subs-will-boom-but-first-that-apple-problem/#comment-82562 What Apple doesn’t realize (or simply is ignoring) is that many app developers have already learned to circumvent their alternative payment restrictions. Some of our most successful merchants/app developers are using our Single-Click Checkout solution in their iOS apps today for recurring payments. Apple is simple giving app developers more incentive than ever to research other payment methods. We welcome that.

John Loschky
Single-Click Checkout

]]> By: honjk http://paidcontent.org/2011/02/18/419-interview-rdio-ceo-says-subs-will-boom-but-first-that-apple-problem/#comment-82561 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:33:38 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/02/18/419-interview-rdio-ceo-says-subs-will-boom-but-first-that-apple-problem/#comment-82561 and Apple subscription plan is not set up for you… you have to use the web, using an app subscription is like asking people to sign up for a subscription to a subscription… it ain’t going to work and it ain’t going to change for your business..

app subscription is set up for really FREE subscriptions, as soon as the publishers realize that they make their money from advertising…

the TV networks and media have already figured it out with the wildly popular ABC app that is FREE and FREE to watch new TV shows… they just have commercials in the content… DUHH….

now every media company is copying ABC’s app…

THAT is what the subscription service is set up for…

]]> By: honjk http://paidcontent.org/2011/02/18/419-interview-rdio-ceo-says-subs-will-boom-but-first-that-apple-problem/#comment-82560 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:29:59 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/02/18/419-interview-rdio-ceo-says-subs-will-boom-but-first-that-apple-problem/#comment-82560 your type of “music subscription” companies have literally been calling for a boom for the last 10 years, also predicting the death of iTunes for 10 years….

you literally could have written that article 5 years ago, and there have been that many people who have tried the same exact thing as you… WHAT HAPPEN?

beside the fact that your type of business does not work… NO one wants to pay $10 a month, when they could buy 10 songs… or watch songs on youTube for free… the kids don’t even slightly consider your option… you have lost and you don’t even know it yet…. worse the record labels are going to force you to raise prices sooner than later… guess what happens to your tiny base then.

you just don’t get it yet, even Rhapsody is losing customer base, from their already tiny customer base.

they predicted the same thing you did two years ago and 3 and 5…..

]]> By: JWB http://paidcontent.org/2011/02/18/419-interview-rdio-ceo-says-subs-will-boom-but-first-that-apple-problem/#comment-82559 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:44:05 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/02/18/419-interview-rdio-ceo-says-subs-will-boom-but-first-that-apple-problem/#comment-82559 RDIO only has 50k subs and cannot survive unless it triples or quadruples its paying user count. They are whistling by the graveyard on this new apple deal because it effectively wipes out the growth channel that got them to 50k subs in such a hurry. No need for both RDIO and MOG, their best chance will be to merge to get the necessary scale.

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