Comments on: iTunes: Variable Pricing Was Cost of Over the Air Downloads?

By: Keil Miller

Keil Miller — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:16:34 +0000

Ps can I enter a redeem code via iPhone? I recieved one as a gift.

By: Keil Miller

Keil Miller — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:14:21 +0000

The edge capability is awesome! When I can’t think of a song or want to preview one, it’s simple! In the car with friends, usually some one asks “what’s that song by…?” And now I might buy more songs since I do not have the Internet for my MacBook or iMac at home.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:50:56 +0000

@Moe,

D'oh, address to FAIL. Sorry. I forwarded your question on to our Android Central team so they could see if there was a size-limit on OTA downloads.

By: Moe

Moe — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:40:19 +0000

Rene, you didn’t answer my question… you answered Ryan, though you mentioned me.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:37:06 +0000

@Moe,

You can still stream them, no matter what the size. Just tap the title of the podcast and it will begin to play over 3G (or EDGE?)

Only slightly less annoying, sure, but remember AT&Ts 3G network is likely composed of rabbit ears on 2G antennas, and when/if they go down due to tons of downloads, people will be even more annoyed than not getting 10MB+

By: Moe

Moe — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:26:55 +0000

But how do you explain, the G1′s ability to download music over the air and still keeping the same cheap prices from Amazon? Or are the G1 music downloads only via WiFi?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:03:25 +0000

Well, they left the 10mb cap on podcast downloads, which, to me, is way more annoying. There are virtually NO podcasts smaller than 10mb, making it basically a no podcast downloads over the air rule. It’s kind of insulting.

By: anose

anose — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:20:39 +0000

iTunes downloads over the air? yawn. eMusic downloads over the air and straight to my iPhone? Now that would be cool. Too bad it will never happen.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:56:25 +0000

I thought new prices wouldn’t be in place until end of Q1. Also, I d/l over p2p which is free so…

By: frog

frog — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:20:45 +0000

I like over the air downloads and have used it quite often now. I highly doubt it was the cause of the price increases though! Surely that related to either the bigger file sizes, or the DRM removal?

By: ciphone

ciphone — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:49:33 +0000

I hope oneday Apple’s music is free

By: Memphis

Memphis — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:10:20 +0000

Unfortunately this DRM free thing is slowly ruining my life as I’m buying way to much music now. I agree with Rene, I also have still only seen 0.99$ songs so far, and them being AAC really is a better format, and is simple enough to convert from when necessary, and since the files are 256kps now, its not like you lose anything from making MP3 files as far as quality is concerned.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:06:25 +0000

Remember, it's only $1.29 for "premium" songs. Still $0.99 for most songs and $0.79 for some old catalog titles. (Note: I've only ever seen $0.99 still).

Also, AAC is the linear successor to MP3, as more and more devices support it, there's no real difference (except AAC provides additional features like bookmarking, multiple artwork, etc.) iTunes will also convert to MP3 at the click of a button if you ever really need old tech versions. Personally, I prefer AAC at this point...

By: Ellis

Ellis — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:04:06 +0000

I’m an ardent apple supporter but could really care less about downloads on 3g or the augmented price point. Even though Apple’s music is DRM free it’s still acc so I’ll stick with Amazon for all my music. I also am still a believer in albums over singles so even if I shopped with Apple the 1.29 singles wouldn’t make a difference

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:15:27 +0000

Honestly if that is the reason for higher prices I think that’s pretty stupid. Being able to buy music over the cellular network is nice but $1.29 for a song is just dumb. $1.29 is such an unwieldy price point. Gone is the days of picking up an $15 iTunes card and picking a nice round amount of 15 new singles.