Nokia’s foray into the world of online music sales has finally materialized: Nokia Music Store is live. Announced back in August, Nokia Music Store is fundamentally not really drastically different from iTunes, or any other online music seller for that matter.
Except for one small detail: it completely and absolutely sucks.
Unfortunately, in the world where even Apple has shunned DRM; Nokia is still clinging to the past. The songs in Nokia Music Store are in Windows Media format, and yes, they’re DRM’d, which is a decision that makes Nokia’s chances of success at selling music quite low. Add to that the fact that it works only for customers in the UK, and the fact that the site only supports Internet Explorer, and the aforementioned chances automatically sink to “abysmal”.
No, really. Let me quickly repeat all that. It’s a music store that won’t work in at least 20% of browsers, doesn’t support any OS other than Windows, sells DRM-protected music (and a poor choice of it, too), and only in the UK? If they ever manage cover even the hosting expenses with this thing I’ll eat my hat. Hell, it doesn’t even work on Nokia N95, as noted by Download Squad. Great job, Nokia. Here’s a screenshot of the site as I see it in my trusty Firefox:
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User comment: By: andyYou would expect more from a company like Nokia I don't think this article is trollish at all, far from it. It is right on the money.
User comment: By: BpMonaco | Internet and Technology Blog | » Blog Archive » Nokia Launches Music Store, And it Sucks[...] say the least. This one comes at you via Mashable. Nokia has launched its music store and, quite frankly (as Stan puts it) it sucks. Got Mozilla [...]
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User comment: By: kevinnormanYou suck
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User comment: By: NickThis article is rather trollish. To be fair, the site does say "Beta", and it's a .co.uk. Troll.
User comment: By: Ryan McFarlandCan i say that this is recockulous? Their header image is perfect - i'll just keep ripping my records.
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User comment: By: emersoninsane. I only liken it to a bunch of suits sitting around agreeing on what "they" think will work best. Meanwhile, it's the same bunch playing Meatloaf and Phantom CD's on their cassette players.
Visit here to subscribe to these commentsUser comment: By: acydlordWhat the hell was nokia thinking? They have these awesome opensource phones coming to market, the opensource internet tablets running on maemo, and then their music outing is not only DRM'd but in the horrible format of WMA? Smells like someone over at nokia took a payoff from someone in the Microsoft PlaysMaybe camp.
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