Why doesn't iTunes offer a service like Napster?

[jessy]

I wish iTunes had a monthly subscription service like napster does. I find it so expensive to download any music from there. At a $1 a song I could easiyl spend over $100 a month and in my opinion that is too much.

 

[spunky]

I agree with you, it would be so much better if they did a subscription, it adds up real quick when you are paying on a per song basis. and I find it really easy to over spend this way also.

 

[you2]

If you pay $1 per song and download 200 songs the cost comes to $200 as per the simple mathematics.
Now for a device which holds 15000 songs loading 200 songs only is costing me $200 then what if I want to download atleast 5000 songs,the cost of downlading itself exceeds the cost of the player-this is absolutely ridiculous.
What do you guys think. Is it rational?

 

[tambermn]

The price they have set per download is anything but rational. If you have an 80-gig ipod that is $20,000 in music alone why would we even want them to come out with something bigger?