Sunday, March 28, 2004 |
12:40 - The dominoes begin to fall
http://www.spymac.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=69700
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J Greely sends this link, wherein what appears to be the untimely demise of BuyMusic.com is discussed.
According to an e-mail sent to prior customers of BuyMusic.com (link intentionally left out), the online store will become "integrated" with its parent site, Buy.com, within several days. What this means to the fate of what was once called "The World’s Largest Download Music Store" is unclear.
Launched before iTunes for Windows, BuyMusic.com initially expected to sell one million songs per day – or 200 to 300 in the first year – according to estimates by founder and CEO Scott Blum. When re-interviewed in December, Blum offered no statistics, but did say, "We’re nowhere near Apple’s numbers."
Remember, this is the company whose initial ad campaign featured Tommy Lee of Motley Crüe leaping on stage, grabbing Apple's iTunes-logo guitar, and smashing it to pieces. I can therefore say without guilt, "Good riddance, you bitter, vindictive dot-com-brained and-then-a-miracle-occurs morons."
Maybe we should start a Death Watch for Napster, the Coca-Cola music store, and the other pretenders to the throne. Because unless and until Microsoft launches their own service, which they can fund through sales of Windows and Office the way they do all their other money-losing departments like MSN and the Xbox, iTunes (which is supported through iPod sales) won't have any real competitors.
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