Is The Zune Pass Worth 15 Bucks A Month?
In an indescribably stupid move, Microsoft is taking pot shots at the iPod by claiming that to fill it would cost $30,000.
Firstly, they have hired Wes Moss, a supposed financial planner, to lecture me on the financial infeasibility of my iPod. I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust any financial planners anymore. Aren’t they the fools who told me that keeping my money in my credit union savings account was stupid and investing it in the stock market was smart? Lucky thing I never listened to them.
Secondly, this financial planner is telling me that to fill my iPod with music, it would cost me $30,000. Of course, at a buck a song, it WOULD cost me that much to fill my iPod. But music isn’t the only thing I put on my iPod. I can also use it for movies, which fill up the capacity pretty easily. Using Garage Band and iMovie, I can fill my iPod with music and movies that I have created as well, so the iPod isn’t merely a repository for my music collection, it’s a bragging right to show off my work.
I find it ironic that Microsoft is suggesting a service that has been proven not to work on several occasions. Both Napster and Yahoo! Music have had similar services for similar prices and they are GONE now. Those months when I paid for the Yahoo! Music were pretty cool. I had whatever music I wanted to listen to, but now all that money I paid is gone and I don’t have anything substantial to show for it.
I don’t think Zune Pass is worth 15 bucks a month. I’d MUCH rather pay the $30,000 to fill my iPod because then I get to KEEP the music.
The Zune Pass allows you to keep 10 songs per month effectively making the cost of renting any of the millions of songs found on Zune Marketplace $5 per month.
I love the Zune Pass and I keep 10 songs a month… you need to redo your math…
Comment by ACE — June 4, 2009 @ 12:02 pm
Thanks for the article. Some people may like renting music, and that’s OK, but if the model is not profitable or doesn’t generate enough interest, it will be discontinued and customers will be left hanging. Microsoft doesn’t care about people, and they have proven it time and time again by selling crap.
I don’t think for a second that people are going to put their ipods and iphones in a drawer and run to buy a ZUNE (of all things) just so they can rent music they won’t own, since they won’t be able to make mixed CD’s, won’t be able to use as tracks in imovies, won’t be able to put on their website and most of all, WONT PLAY ON THEIR IPODS or IPHONES.
Plus -to update Mr. Financial planner there, some songs are now as cheap as 69ç and itunes offers many FREE downloads, including podcasts, games and apps. Plus you can buy or RENT movies. There is no way you need to spend all that money to fill your ipod or iphone.
And since itunes has a rental service with movies, if the subscription system proves to be a success (which I doubt), it would be only a matter of time before they would be offering rental music as well.
Comment by Grafight — June 18, 2009 @ 7:33 am