Monday, April 17, 2006
The Explosive Growth of Mobile Music Downloads
Posted by Jerry Raia in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 12:00 PM
http://www.abiresearch.com/abiprdisplay.jsp?pressid=620
"The market for full track music downloads to mobile devices was twenty times larger at the end of 2005 than it was twelve months earlier, a new study from ABI Research has revealed. "Mobile Music Services" surveyed world markets for downloads of full music tracks, ringtones and ringback tones. It found that global revenues from over-the-air (OTA) downloaded full track songs last year were $251 million, up from $12.4 million in 2004. ABI Research forecasts that by 2011 this figure will be $9.3 billion."I give up, I just can't stop phones from becoming media players can I? I admit it, I have been defeated! So does this mean that a phone that can only hold 100 songs and not download over the air wouldn't be a good idea? :lol:
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