Has Amazon Forced Apple Into a Price Drop?
Has Amazon Forced Apple Into a Price Drop? Tuesday October 30, 2007#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Amazon, who recently launched their digital music service, might just have forced Apple to drop the price of their DRM-free music. Apple’s iTunes Plus service now offers DRM-free downloads for 99 cents; previously the price to download an unprotected track was $1.29. This price drop will benefit the consumer and hopefully influence other services to follow suit. Consumers demand the freedom to use their purchased music with a wide range of players; DRM-free music gives the flexibility to use any hardware device that is MP3 capable. We are continuing to see a trend in the uptake of DR