Facebook to Launch iTunes Competitor
Posted by Nick O'Neill on October 5th, 2007 9:00 AMAn extremely reliable anonymous source has informed me about Facebook launching an iTunes competitor within their company. Over the past months Facebook has been searching for a CEO to head up this new subdivision. Facebook has been pursuing agreements with a number of record labels. The target market was supposedly college students but unfortunately details are limited.
One thing is for sure though. If Facbook decides to launch an iTunes competitor the existing music applications on the platform are not going to be happy (unless of course they are granted permission to become a lead generation tool for Facebook). This may be a little late on the timing though if downloadable music is eventually going to become free. Regardless, Facebook has been working on this project for many months now. I heard rumors of this back in March but none had been substantiated.
My most recent informant knows one of the people being interviewed for the position. The only thing under question at this point is how are they going to integrate this properly. Also, is this a tangent to their primary business model? Would you buy music from Facebook?
October 5th, 2007 at 10:19 am
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Facebook’s Music Store?…
What do you do when your site’s visitors are literate in, and willing to use, piracy for all their content?
Start a music store?
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We’re finally going to see some of Parakey’s technology. Music that you buy will be available online through Facebook to access from anywhere and it will sync with your home computer to store the music locally. I don’t understand all the skepticism…this is awesome!
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October 5th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Sorry, but this makes zero sense to me. This is definitely a tangent and I don’t understand how it would integrate with the vision Zuckerburg has painted for Facebook. The music market is right in the middle of big changes, so Facebook would have to really differentiate themselves to pull this off. Otherwise, I’d see little incentive to buy from them.
Personally, I hope this rumor is false. Facebook needs to keep focusing on and refining the social utility they’ve built so well so far.
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I suppose with a 40 millions users base, facebook could do that. It would be attractive for labels. But it has to be DRM free because it needs to work on the any mp3 player, especially the ipod. The advantage is to show your friends what you are listening to and then it can spread the word about such and such band…..
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It’s not iTunes that is so popular… it’s the iPod. The iPod MAKES iTunes worth it, and right now 72% of mobile media users are using iPod… Good luck facebook! Ask Wal-Mart how that turned out!
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