BlackBerry getting new music sharing service... iOS still has Ping
Microsoft offers subscription music via their Zune service, and now another iPhone and iPad rival, RIM's BlackBerry, might be joining the party. Kevin from CrackBerry.com has the scoop:
- Users will have to download the new standalone BlackBerry music app from App World
- Once installed, there should be a free trial (may vary by country/carrier - but expect a month free)
- Once the free trial expires, the service will cost $5/mo.
- With the app installed, you can choose up to 50 songs of your choice. Apparently the catalog selection is pretty good!
- From there, you invite your contacts via BBM, etc. to also download the app if they don't have it and join your music sharing network (invited contacts must pay the $5/mo. also to take part and remain part of the service).
- From there, you can listen to not only the 50 songs you've selected), but any of the 50 songs from your music sharing network. So if you have 20 contacts, you'll have access to 1,000 other songs in addition to your 50. We're not sure yet if there's a limit to how many people you can share with, but essentially the more people in your music sharing group the more music you'll have access to.
While Apple offers music downloads via iTunes, and will offer a music locker via iTunes Match, they don't currently have a subscription service nor do they have a way to share music (though they do have a network of sorts -- Ping).
That means iOS users who want subscriptions need a third party service like Pandora, Spotify, Slacker, Rdio, last.fm, etc.
Are Apple users missing out here?
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As much as I hate iTunes, it does make purchasing music very painless. But I wish Ping would just ping off.
DEATH TO PING!!!!!!!!!
It seems that RIM only chooses projects that will fail anymore. I love how you have to recruit paying friends to listen to more music after you are already paying.
I'm glad I went away from RIM,and what about if you don't like some of the songs from your social music groups list,would you be able to customize what stays or goes.They should of also thrown in a free trial for suggesting this to friends.Sounds like someones hungry for some cash to stay in the game.
Ummmm - most of my social circle listen to the same, or similar, music. Majority of it will overlap :/
Twitter isn't even really a social site, not on the same level as Google + and Facebook, it's for sad people to follow so called celebrities and people they don't know and will never know .. That is why it is shit, at least teh other 2 you can keep in touch with actual friends and people you know, either way though, all social sites like those mentioned are for the majority, for losers with no lives who spend far too much time on the internet instead of actually going out and socialising !!
kind of like you, replying to somebodys comment, who you don't even know, on the internet. loser
BlackBerry is definitely making efforts to get into the iPhone consumer market. The recent development of the BlackBerry PlayBook which is the new Tablet PC surely shows promise, but I doubt dedicated iPhone users will ever be able to switch their game. As least attractive as Ping may be, iTunes still happens to be the best song download service ever devised! http://www.apple.com/iphone/
It's just going to be old music because RIM doesn't know what year it is.