Apple iPhone Signals Death of Ringtone Industry
Today Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, a combination cellphone, iPod, and Blackberry device all in one. In many ways it is the ultimate digital device. It plays music, widescreen movies, surfs the net, checks your email, is a phone, does text messaging, and has an amazingly intuitive user interface that is without equal in either the MP3 player, Video Player, or Cellphone market. It uses multi-touchscreen sensing technology to accommodate all of those functionalities in a familiar and easy-to-use way. Everyone is talking and will continue to talk about its impact on the cellphone, smart phone, and media player markets. What nobody has mentioned yet is what effect this will have on the paid ringtone industry.
In 3-5 years just about all of the newest phones will have easy syncing with your music library and the paid ringtone market will shrivel up and die.
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