chicken: (25. kd butch)
chicken ([personal profile] chicken) wrote2004-04-29 11:38 am

Free weekly songs in iTunes

Song downloads are sure to increase with the unveiling by Apple of a free weekly download for iTunes users. Every Tuesday the company will make one song available for free to all customers, something analysts think will pay off big for the company.
-- http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=77&e=1&u=/mc/20040428/tc_mc/analystsapplesafeguardsonlinemusiclead

Kickass.

Although, given the overwhelming pounding their servers got yesterday, who knows how fast the downloads will go. Maybe by then they'll have cobbled together a few trillion more servers by Tuesday. Haha.

Also, if the choice(s) of songs is sucky, it will not help them.
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[personal profile] jwgh 2004-04-29 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
The Pepsi promotion I think resulted in me buying more songs than I would have otherwise, just because it got me browsing around the store ... (I did also get a bunch of free songs.)

I don't think it worked as well for Pepsi, since I stopped buying Pepsi as soon as the promotion stopped.

It'll be interesting to see what songs they offer! I would think it might work better if they offered you your choice of, say, a half-dozen songs from different genres. Anyway, we'll see.

[identity profile] chicken-cem.livejournal.com 2004-04-29 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
I did the same thing with the Pepsi, stopped drinking it pretty much today.

If Apple only offers one song per week to 'choose' from, I will be sadly disappointed.