Are the terms any different from streaming music online?
This requires the Rhapsody To Go tier. So to the extent that Rhapsody To Go is different from Rhapsody Unlimited, yes. But from our perspective, having the music on your phone is not much different that sideloading it to a Sansa. This was treated no differently than any other MP3 player. How important is it to launch this in the U.S. before Spotify? That service has a lot of momentum you’re going to have to compete with when it goes live in this country. From our perspective the reason Spotify blew up so big and so fast was it was free. That model isn’t going to happen in the U.S. anytime soon, maybe ever. The U.S. is the market where the labels make all their money. They can’t afford to have a service that doesn’t generate substantial revenues to them suck up all the usage in the United States. Don’t get me wrong, I recognize Spotify has a [fast] client, it’s fast and clean, but if it was $15 [a month] out of the gate, it wouldn’t have a million users. Once you take the free piece awa
