with the premium version you can save the music to your phone locally. I load up music before I get on the subway every morning.

I'm probably being overly critical of them disclosing their rates. They did not say who their distributor is, and theoretically they are not under an NDA. I do still believe that me as someone who gets paid at a job, have more power and benefit as an employee that my peers nor colleagues know my exact salary. But…

that's not the correct argument. Anyone has the right to do anything they want and charge for it. However no one is entitled to make a living at *anything*. Right now there is no money in music. Some people have figured out how to work around it and create alternate revenue streams, some people are good or popular…

you absolutely have a valid point, but it isn't the band's place to disclose those rates. This is more akin to a child going into school and announcing how much money his parents make.

iTunes is a famous 70/30 split as they are publicly transparent, but most rates are in fact somewhat secret. I get a different rate than they do for Spotify, and I'm pretty sure my eMusic rate is different.

I mentioned it on a different thread but I think this band is being taken for a ride. Digital distributors work with the major online services and do not charge artists an annual fee for putting up music. They definitely take a cut of your sales at a negotiated rate, but there is no barrier for entry. If the guy…

the way digital distributors work you get to be on everything. The music is uploaded to a central site with all of your metadata, artwork and uncompressed audio. Then this is set up as a feed that is picked up by iTunes/Amazon/eMusic/Spotify/Rhapsody/Bob's Discount Music Shack/etc. My distributor (who does not…

neither iTunes nor Amazon charge anything. An unsigned band like the one who wrote this article is going through a digital distributor, most of whom don't charge either. I think this band got scammed if they're paying an annual fee to be listed.

I've been in indie bands since the 90s when physical product really mattered and it sounds like these guys are doing it all wrong.

I wonder how they got their 4 million number. From playing games like Dead Space2 and Mass Effect I am a registered EA user who gets their annoying emails, and I think they auto-signed me up for Origin. But I haven't signed in, nor would even really know how. That's a bit disingenuous when flaunting huge numbers.

hehe I have a PS3 but I've been eyeing that silly 5.1 3D TV that straps onto your head and thinking "I should buy that silly 3d head TV just for this, huh?"

iCade released the APIs and a bunch of developers have already added it to their games. It's pretty great.

Sony, bringing you the most awkward social gathering ever.

same with Spotify. The one thing I think a lot of people miss about Spotify's app is that unless you pay for premium service the app has very little functionality and is kind of janky. As I mentioned above I have plenty of my own issues with the premium version, but it sounds like alt1 is a bit disappointed with how…

Yeah I wasn't implying Android's is better, just as bad in its own unique way. I downloaded the iOS version to my iPad to see what that version is like and they're both shitty.

try the android version. It doesn't even have folder support. There's a thread of furious people on the Spotify forums, and they won't even promise it in future versions of the Android app.

my question too. I'm the kind of nerd with disposable income who would jump at this, provided it has enough room for my head and my glasses.

I don't see what you did there. The Nexus brand is very specific. The Droid brand is very specific. They both represent different things.

by clicking the source link and reading the same article that the Giz author read. BGR's story is about a Droid Prime. Giz got their wires crossed in translation and are calling it a Nexus.

it sounds like it is not a rumor, however it is a Droid. Even if it is the first phone with ICS (Droid was the first Eclair phone before the Nexus One) Google will put out their own stock ICS Nexus phone.