I'd be interested to find out exactly how much the record companies where after. How much, exactly, is too much ?
How inventive where Pandora in their negotiations ? After all, our saved radio stations would be valuable information to a record companies marketing department. And I was always amazed, as a subscriber, that totally free access was given, for the sake of a very unintrusive advert. With no real incentive for people to subscribe, the monies where never going to come in. My insight into their business model is only what I see as a consumer, but it doesn't seem like a great one to me. I must have told a dozen people about the Pandora service, all of whom would have happily paid for a subscription at Pandora's nominal rates, but didn't, simply because there was no need to. And no, none of us were motivated to buy a BigMac either ;o) If you gave out a free trial period of a few hours play, and then charged everyone to keep the service, I'd expect the user retention rate would of been pretty high. I'd have happily paid £10 a month for the service. With real money coming into their coffers, they'd have been in a stronger position. -- yockers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ yockers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5075 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41900
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