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Anyone remember Yahoo! Music? Another market leader that is now defunct. "Yahoo Music was the number one online music site in terms of audience reach and tota
by Tempest1981 8y ago
Anyone remember Yahoo! Music? Another market leader that is now defunct.
"Yahoo Music was the number one online music site in terms of audience reach and total time spent in March 2007."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Music https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Music
Unlimited streaming for $9/mo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Music_Unlimited https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Music_Unlimited
- Bartweiss 8y agoWow - I had no idea Yahoo! Music was that big that recently. Sort of hard to guess how much blame anyone at Yahoo actually bears for that decline, though. I notice 2007 was also the year Apple released the iPhone and started selling DRM-free music via iTunes, which has to have been something of an outside-context problem for a music web service. In general, it looks a bit like they suffered the same fate as the earliest smartphone designers. It was a worthwhile product, but practical constraints rewarded a restricted version (Palm Pilots, wholly local music storage), and the business fell out of use before there was enough space to provide a fancier version (iPhones, Spotify) of the same offering.