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Amazon has potential to become the next iTunes
Mashable reports that Amazon might be launching it’s DRM free music download service on or around September 17th. Armed with the music catalogs of music giants Universal and EMI and selling most tracks for 99 cents or less, there are some reasons worth considering on why Amazon could become the next leader in the music download space.
- Amazon already sells a lot of music and media on CDs, and has all the necessary infrastructure and customers for this new service.
- Amazon loves APIs and webservices, it won’t be long before developers and amazon affiliates will be able to create interesting apps using ECS (Amazon’s webservice for that allows developers to access their product-related data), who knows, someone might even create an iTunes plugin that integrates amazon to your iTunes/iPod.
- This is entirely DRM free music, which means it’s not windows-only unlike many many other iTunes competitors out there, amazon will be delivering a truly cross-platform music download service.
What do you think? Does Amazon have what it takes to become the next iTunes?
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Any company that provides access to their content without requiring Windows always gets my vote. I use Ubuntu Linux at both work and home.