Comments on: iTunes: Variable Pricing Was Cost of Over the Air Downloads?

By: Keil Miller

Keil Miller — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:16:34 +0000

Ps can I enter a redeem code via iPhone? I recieved one as a gift.

By: Keil Miller

Keil Miller — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:14:21 +0000

The edge capability is awesome! When I can’t think of a song or want to preview one, it’s simple! In the car with friends, usually some one asks “what’s that song by…?” And now I might buy more songs since I do not have the Internet for my MacBook or iMac at home.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:50:56 +0000

@Moe,

D'oh, address to FAIL. Sorry. I forwarded your question on to our Android Central team so they could see if there was a size-limit on OTA downloads.

By: Moe

Moe — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:40:19 +0000

Rene, you didn’t answer my question… you answered Ryan, though you mentioned me.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:37:06 +0000

@Moe,

You can still stream them, no matter what the size. Just tap the title of the podcast and it will begin to play over 3G (or EDGE?)

Only slightly less annoying, sure, but remember AT&Ts 3G network is likely composed of rabbit ears on 2G antennas, and when/if they go down due to tons of downloads, people will be even more annoyed than not getting 10MB+

By: Moe

Moe — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:26:55 +0000

But how do you explain, the G1’s ability to download music over the air and still keeping the same cheap prices from Amazon? Or are the G1 music downloads only via WiFi?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:03:25 +0000

Well, they left the 10mb cap on podcast downloads, which, to me, is way more annoying. There are virtually NO podcasts smaller than 10mb, making it basically a no podcast downloads over the air rule. It’s kind of insulting.

By: anose

anose — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:20:39 +0000

iTunes downloads over the air? yawn. eMusic downloads over the air and straight to my iPhone? Now that would be cool. Too bad it will never happen.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:56:25 +0000

I thought new prices wouldn’t be in place until end of Q1. Also, I d/l over p2p which is free so…

By: frog

frog — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:20:45 +0000

I like over the air downloads and have used it quite often now. I highly doubt it was the cause of the price increases though! Surely that related to either the bigger file sizes, or the DRM removal?