From ZDNet:
How Apple will crush its competition with iTunes Online
Rhapsody. Napster. MOG. Rdio.
What do these four music subscription services have in common? Each company survives on monthly subscription revenues. Each one has an iPhone/iPad app that is prominently featured on its home page. Each one offers a free trial that they hope you’ll love and that you’ll convert to a paid subscription when the trial runs out. nd under Apple’s new subscription rules, each one will soon be forced to start paying 30% of its revenue for each of those easy, one-click subscriptions it gets through an app on an Apple device.
In short, each of those four services has just been torpedoed by Apple. Each one is taking on water. The question now is deciding in what order they go under.
I will be sorry to see the end of Rhapsody: a great source for nearly unlimited music, both at my desk (I have it on almost all day) and on my mp3 player, for ten bucks a month; Steve Jobs doesn't get out of bed for that kind of money.
