Nokia Music Store
So the Nokia Music Store launched today in the UK. A few observations:
- On a PC, this site can only be accessed by Internet Explorer. What milennium are we living in?
- On phones/mobile devices, only the Nokia N95 8GB or a Nokia N81 can be used currently to access it. Surely on launch day, Nokia should have made sure that the other phones which they plan to make the store accessible by would have have had at least the ability to upgrade their software so that they can try out the store on launch.
- From what I can tell, all the audio is DRM’ed windows media. Amazon and iTunes stores have been for a while now selling non-DRM’ed music. Why launch a store now with no non-DRM option?
- The tracks are 80p, compared to iTunes’s 79p (for non-DRMed tracks also) and amazon’s 99 cents (about 50p). Does not sound too tempting, especially as the Nokia web browser is decent enough to browse on amazon’s site.
However, all in all, with the amount of people using their phones now in the UK as ipod replacements, it does seem like a shrewd move by Nokia to try and get more business from their phones. This and the ngage relaunch that Nokia are doing should ensure more after-purchase business from Nokia phone customers.
November 22nd, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Why would anyone ever consider buying music that they can’t get off their phone… ESPECIALLY at nearly a quid a track. 8 quid for a 43 min 10 track album… with no cover, inlay, booklet or any physical product still smells a bit fishy to me.
£8 is too much for a CD in my eyes. Never mind a bunch of files.