New RIM Streaming Music: $5 For 50 Songs?

jfruhlinger writes with news that Research In Motion will soon jump into the music service market. The service will be available through BlackBerry Messenger, and will offer users 50 songs for $5/month, which they can then share with other people who own BlackBerries. "So why would anyone pay $5 a month to get 50 songs on their phone, when they can pay $10 a month and get an unlimited number of songs, that work on lots of different devices, from services like Rdio and Rhapsody? Reasonable question! But RIM seems to be assuming that its subscribers won’t ask. Instead it is playing up the notion that BBM Music will be about 'personalizing' your phone, in the same way that ringtones supposedly did a decade ago. Ringtones, as you’ll recall, let buyers play a few seconds of a song, and sold for a couple bucks, while full songs from Apple’s iTunes went for 99 cents. And for a few years, the music companies and the wireless carriers sold lots and lots of ringtones."

Must...invent...something...

[alphatel]

Or you can wait a few months and buy 50 shares of RIM for $5. How much does a deathknell ringtone cost?

Re:99 cents is too much these days

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you nuts? We used to buy songs on plastic discs, called RECORDS, in the 1970's for 99c!!!

RIM is RIM and RIM is not Rim but Rim might be rim

[GrandTeddyBearOfDoom]

#!/bin/bash

echo RIM are confused by the market
echo RIM don't know what to produce
echo RIM think that everybody likes Blackberry's
echo RIM can't accept that you would prefer another mobile

#!C /* A poem in the key of C */
#include "staff.h"
#include "key.h"
#include "tempo.h"
#define poem RIMisRIM
a poem() {
    RIM is RIM not Rim nor rim
    tis why we stick them in //the-bin.
    but /bin is where our binaries go
    so where to put-it do we // know?
}
#!/bin/bash

echo Can you guess what's in the headers??