iPod so hmmm where are all these $0.69 songs apple was talking about?

[aprofetto]

All the good songs are 1.29, dammit!

 

[iOrlando]

So I guess they should have said to thousands of people, "We don't have a clue what our new prices will be."

THAT'S the best way to run a company. Oh, and so they lied. What, you'll sell your Mac and buy a Zune now? Who cares?

well apple shouldn't have come out and say..."there will be more 0.69 songs than 1.29"

That's like saying...your iphone att data plan will get cheaper in 2009, but by time 2010 arrives, no change has occurred.

If apple has no control over pricing, then who exactly came out with the tier pricing? Apple made it seem like they were the ones who came out with the idea of 3 tiers.

and i understand older songs should be $0.69 and not black chick peas and other current bands like that, but i guess i was thinking 1991 punk rock bands would be considered "older songs" and $0.69 like blues travelers and not soundtracks to 1970s movies that I have never heard of.

 

[Maserati7200]

So I guess they should have said to thousands of people, "We don't have a clue what our new prices will be."

THAT'S the best way to run a company. Oh, and so they lied. What, you'll sell your Mac and buy a Zune now? Who cares?

They should have not mentioned it instead of lying about it.

 

[rhett7660]

Not defending Apple, but the music industry could of told apple that is what the plan was. To offer a lot more .69 cent songs. Once the money started to roll in. They changed there mind.

One never knows.

I am in the camp, of buying my cd's and ripping them. I purchase very little music from iTunes or Amazon.com.

 

[Bjohnson33]

I assumed a lot of the independent bands would drop down to .69, but even a lot of those songs have risen to 1.29. It's a shame - I think dropping the price would increase the sales substantially.

 

[seashellz]

couldn't find one $0.69 song.

so pretty much apple lied when they said there will be more $0.69 songs than $0.99 or $1.29

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uhm...do you even have the slightest clue as to what youre talking about?

 

[NT1440]

Werent these prices set by the music industry?

 

[iOrlando]

Werent these prices set by the music industry?

topic of this thread is not dependent on who set them. Instead, this thread asks why did apple say in their presentation "there will be more $0.69 songs than $0.99 or $1.29"

 

[BittenApple]

but also, some have been converted and reconverted from lossy format to lossy format it seems thus making it sounds terrible.

It's true some of the time (and granted more with music downloaded off Limewire for example), but most of the pirated music out there is decent quality. (AKA better than iTunes)