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Jason Mick (Blog) - September 10, 2009 1:44 PM

14 comment(s) - last by ipay.. on Sep 12 at 10:25 AM

Rhapsody's music app just got approved, signalling that Apple is loosening its iPhone App Store policing. (Source: Engadget)

Apple appears to be opening up the app store

Earlier this week Apple approved Spotify, a European music store application, for its iPhone. Previously Apple had banned apps from the iPhone that competed with its own products, except for third-party browsers using the Webkit rendering engine. Under federal scrutiny following Apple and AT&T's rejection of Google Voice, Apple is looking to at least appear a bit more open.

Now another music store app, this one from Real Networks' Rhapsody, has gone live. The free app can be used with the service for a week on a trial Rhapsody-to-Go subscription, but after that it will cost $15 per month.

A subscription buys you access to 8 million tracks from the MTV and RealNetwork tie-up. The upside is that you can stream these tracks over 3G or WiFi. The downside is that they're streamed at extremely low quality -- 64 kbps.

If mobile music, regardless of the quality, is your cup of tea and you have an iPhone, the new Rhapsody app is welcome news. At the very least, its a sign that Apple is taking a more relaxed stance with its App Store policing -- and that's good news for everyone.

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RE: sound quality

By Flunk on 9/11/2009 11:57:01 AM , Rating: 2

You can call yourself anything you want but it doesn't make it sensible or reasonable.

Also higher encoding => smaller files at lower bit rate so your argument doesn't make very much sense. Perhaps you are slightly confused.

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