Bad news for mobile music

We never really wish to hear anything “bad” happening to our beloved mobile music money train, but from the looks of things, the industry may have some upcoming challenges.

A SURVEY carried out by Entertainment Media Research – in association with the law firm Olswang - makes pretty dire reading for the mobile phone industry. By contrast, it gives a whacking great boost to the social networking sites.

When asked what do they do when they hear a track which they’d like to download to their mobile, only six per cent said they’d buy it from their network operator’s portal. A massive 44 per cent said they simply weren’t interested in downloading music to their mobile phones.
There’s also bad news for technologies like Nokia’s Visual Radio. When asked whether they’d purchase a track they’d just heard on the radio and download it to their handset, only 36 per cent found the concept appealing…. Source: The Inquirer