Thursday, January 12, 2012

Sony joins crowded music service field

Sony is expanding its Music Unlimited streaming service with apps for iPhones and iPads.  The service currently is optimized for a variety of Sony devices and smartphones running the Android OS.  The service offers the same basic access to some 15 million songs licensed for streaming, as well as channels for a range of genres, and local caching for off-air play, for $9.95 a month.  The company hopes to use the service to help its international retail operations, and will focus on recruiting subscribers new to music streaming, rather than competing with other cloud streaming options.

While competitition is generally good for the consumer, the promised Sony service doesn't seem to have a competitive advantage over its competition, so it's unclear what impact it will have on the market.

Source - Sony's Music Unlimited streaming service coming to Apple's iOSFierceMobileContent.

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