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iTunes is used, overwhelmingly, to deliver music to mobile devices. And streaming is facing a number of serious barriers for that kind of mobile use: battery dr
by roc 15y ago
iTunes is used, overwhelmingly, to deliver music to mobile devices. And streaming is facing a number of serious barriers for that kind of mobile use: battery drain, network coverage, bandwidth caps and the high price of data plans (with sufficient caps).
So, almost regardless of individual quality, streaming services are not replacing iTunes any time soon. Almost certainly not in the US and likely not anywhere else.
They definitely have a market, particularly in competing with terrestrial and satellite radio. But streaming is simply not a good fit to do what iTunes is used to do.
- Hyena 15y agoSpotify lets you download songs into iPods and phones for offline streaming. This is an obsolete complaint.
- lurch_mojoff 15y ago"Offline streaming", right. You can synch only music you have bought from Spotify. It does not work with the "all you can eat" subscription. So it is very much not an obsolete complaint.
- Hyena 15y ago"Offline streaming" is kind of a kludge term. To me, if I don't own the songs and they're not immediately accessible to my other software, "syncing" seems slightly inaccurate connotatively. So I went with "offline streaming" because it seems to connote what is going on: localizing my stream, very local. I haven't had a problem with the Premium service, so I'm not sure which one you're describing as AYCE.