Wow - 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 no

Wow - 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.