People can download a CD-quality song for about 99 cents. And they do
-- to such an extent that the music industry has been truly revitalized
by this.
Knowing that, I find it amazing that people (the same people in many cases, I'm sure) will pay $2.50 or so to download an inferior-quality snippet of a song as a ring tone for their phone. When they tire of that ring tone (as they inevitably will), they'll go buy another. In many cases, too, they will lose those ring tones when they switch to a new phone -- and will buy them all over again.
Folks in the wireless biz I've talked to marvel at this, and shake their heads (all the way to the bank).
Knowing that, I find it amazing that people (the same people in many cases, I'm sure) will pay $2.50 or so to download an inferior-quality snippet of a song as a ring tone for their phone. When they tire of that ring tone (as they inevitably will), they'll go buy another. In many cases, too, they will lose those ring tones when they switch to a new phone -- and will buy them all over again.
Folks in the wireless biz I've talked to marvel at this, and shake their heads (all the way to the bank).
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