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Lots of hullabaloo about Apple’s iOS subscription product . The basics – everyone pays 30%, you can’t charge more on the iPhone for the product than you do on other platforms, and you can’t link out from the app to the browser to handle subscriptions without Apple being in the middle. It’s not even clear that apps will be able to just post a message telling people to create an account from their computer and then come back to their iPhone and use the app.

Apple Keelhauls Music Streaming Services

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/15/apple-keelhauls-music-streaming-services/

New Apple App Rules Could Kill Subscription Music

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/02/apple-killing-a-subscription-music-service-near-you.html Check and mate. There's no other way to make sense of what just happened.
ComScore published its 2010 Digital Year in Review report. In their analysis of what Americans are doing with their mobile devices, listening to music didn't fare well, which is a nice way of saying that it ranked dead last. http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/02/music-listening-the-back-background-activity-of-mobile.html

Music Listening – The Least Popular Mobile Activity

Future to Come: Pandora in Hand, Pandora in Car

50% of radio listening happens in the car. http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/01/music-in-hand-music-in-car-the-future-to-come.html
http://paidcontent.org/2011/01/21/419-nokia-stumbled-but-mobile-music-services-are-still-gaining-ground/ Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have shuttered its unlimited music service in all but six of the 33 markets where it was operational, with low subscri… Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have shuttered its unlimited music service in all but six of the 33 markets where it was operational, with low subscriber traction as one of the main reasons for the closure. But judging by the number of mobile music services coming out this week — from the label Sony (NYSE: SNE), the operator Cricket, and the startup mSpot — there’s still a lot of faith in making a business out of mobile music, if you pick your moments carefully.

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Most mobile carriers have a mobile store, filled with much of the same music you can find on iTunes. http://www.fastcompany.com/1696003/smartphones-make-more-money-streaming-music-downloads-study

Smartphones Make More Money From Streaming Music Than Downloads: Study

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-20009329-27.html I'm a big proponent of cloud-based music services for mobile devices.

Handicapping the mobile music services | Digital Noise: Music and Tech

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/02/rdio-ceo-says-new-apple-tax-makes-it-untenable-for-them-to-exist-on-ios-devices.html One by one, executives behind leading subscription music companies are speaking out against the new Apple Tax. CEO Steve Jobs has made it clear that when Apple brings new subscribers to apps he expects them to let Apple handle the billing process and for providing that service, he believes his company is entitled to a 30% cut of the profits.

Rdio CEO Says New Apple Tax Makes It “Untenable” For Them to Exist On iOS Devices