The Introductory Pricing is only going to last so long. People will flock to the service until the price goes up and then Yahoo will be where all the others are. Sharing a minority market where noone gets their bellies full.

Poor Napster though...they just raised their guidance and Yahoo could negatively affect their remaining qtrs this year.

For all Yahoo's hype, its just another rental option that leaves people at Microsoft's mercy. The DRM is built into hardware, for heavens sake, so even if you buy the song you are SOL if Microsoft changes formats.

I'm glad some analysts have brains and don't buy the hype. The RIAA sure want's you to rent music, but its a rip off for customers.

i like things simple, i have the best products in ipod and itunes, why then glom up my system with other stuff just to save a few cents, besides, most of my music is from my cd collection so buying is a minority of my music. but why change my habits, signins, usability etc, it's not just price. it's the total package. this will affect the other non apple players as services scramble to carve out the non ipod/itunes market. napster beware.
itunes/ipod is like peanut butter and jelly, ham and cheese abbot and costello==apple is pure genius why stray with dunce.. sure we like to dable in change but once comfortable we don't want to learn two, three systems. if apple charged 1.25 i'd still buy i just love the interface. it's the gold standard till they replace gold.
my wife says "if i can't use my ipod there is no sense in changing"