Thursday, September 6, 2007

iTunes has 99 Cent Surcharge For Ring Tones: Not Cool


One thing that I've always have given Apple credit for was the way iTunes works. No other application works as well with an MP3 player like this one does. So I was excited after the announcement of the upgrade of iTunes with a new feature for ring tones. This new iTunes will allow iphone users to take 30 second snips of any song they own, and make it into a ring tone. Any 30 seconds that you want of any song, which is very cool, right?

Until I found out that Apple is going to charge your ass .99 cents to do this. Now, this is a song that you already own, not downloading from Apple to add as a ring tone. A song that is already in your iTunes that you've paid for once before. I'm sure that the record company is getting some kind of kick back from Apple for this.

But that is a total rip off!!!

So you have to pay to have a song that you already own, cut up to put on your phone?

BS Apple!!! BS!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I can fully understand them charging for the service of cutting up a song, however it should be more like 25 cents, not the full price of a song.

I guess since they'll be losing so much revenue with the loss of NBC they need to make up for it in other ways.