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Sigh... I know I'm going to get downvoted to hell & back for saying this on HN, but... I own a Zune, and I like it. Egads, I know, right!? The thing is: for $

Sigh... I know I'm going to get downvoted to hell & back for saying this on HN, but... I own a Zune, and I like it. Egads, I know, right!? The thing is: for $15/mo I can legally download almost as much as I want to multiple Zunes (one for myself, one for my wife) and we get $10/mo in credits to buy songs we are otherwise renting. Sure, everything is still locked down with draconian DRM (which is rather easily circumvented) but for my use cases of just being able to pop a few songs over onto one of our portables, or play songs from multiple computers (up to 5), or stream songs from my XBox - well, I just don't care about the DRM that much. My wife & I both have iPhones and would gladly switch back to iTunes, if only Apple would offer a subscription service (cold day in hell and all that, I know).

ugh 16y ago
(No idea why you should be downvoted for owning a Zune. Seems like an awesome product.) There are subscription people and there are download people (and there are no doubt people who are both for different kinds of music). There is more than enough space for both models of listening to music. Just cause’ many people like subscriptions doesn’t mean that buying and downloading music and in particular iTunes are dead. I’m not saying that buying and downloading music is the only true way, everyone who does anything else is a heretic and all subscriptions platforms are doomed.