“About 6m songs will be available to download in the US, UK, Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Spain,” Bradshaw reports. “Other music applications are available, but this will be the first time BlackBerry customers will be able to download music direct to their handsets.”
“Most tracks will not have copy protection software, which restricts how many devices the music can be moved to,” Bradshaw reports. “Users will initially have to download an application from BlackBerry App World, RIM’s answer to Apple’s App Store.”
Bradshaw reports, “Tracks will typically cost 79p ($0.99) and albums £7.99 ($9.99), the same as on 7Digital’s existing download store for desktop computers.”
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MacDailyNews Take: It certainly didn’t take long for Apple to completely reduce the obviously shameless RIM to the Microsoftian role of derivative follower.
