Comments on: Amazon opens music store for Apple devices, songs start at 69 cents

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:08:57 +0000

I’ll be purchasing music here then. Apple stopped their 69 cent songs. I also stopped buying music, coincidentally. :-) Apple reinstates their 69 cent songs then I may coincidentally start buying again. See how it works?

By: tony

tony — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:13:18 +0000

Itunes is old…all younger people are Spotify Pandora Mog.

By: kga245

kga245 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:51:58 +0000

Amazon and Apple think they are in competition with each other. Aren’t they, in fact, in competition with Spotify for this particular service?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:51:17 +0000

Amazon is not interested in making money now, they want to play the long game but must first break down everyone else. Amazon is just extending their zero-sum game (sell goods at cost if they must) to give their customers better experience.

Whoever has the deepest pocket and customer based will last longer. What I don’t understand why they are messing with Apple in their own turf.

By: Laughing_Boy48

Laughing_Boy48 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:33:54 +0000

Amazon’s share price goes up. Apple’s share price goes down. Apple really needs to do something about that Amazon instead of letting that company just steal everything away. I sure wonder how Amazon actually makes any money, but Wall Street doesn’t seem to care.

By: Russell

Russell — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:16:36 +0000

Record labels have little to no reason to stay with itunes.

They can sign with Amazon and have access to both Apple and Android users.

By: Misternl

Misternl — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:09:35 +0000

This statement is factually wrong:

“which lets Amazon avoid the 30 percent commission that Apple takes for all sales that take place in iTunes.”

Only sales of apps have a 30% commission in the iTunes store. The commission for music sales is more like 3%