Connect.com – Sony’s Online Music Store
Filed in: Technology, Web — May 6th, 2004
Connect.com is the new online music store recently launched by Sony. It seems to be an Apple iTune wannabe.
About Connect.com
- over 500,000 songs
- USD$0.99(RM3.76) per song, or USD$9.99(37.96) for entire album
- The software runs only on Microsoft Windows _and_ only Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 Professional(no support home edition), and Windows XP
- Can burn the downloaded songs in up to 10 CDs
- Unlimited song playback on three registered PC
- Downloaded song only transferable to Sony audio coding system ATRAC compatible devices
- Currently, the store is available only in the U.S.
Source: Sony Spins New Online Music Store | PCWorld
Thought:
With support for both MacOS and Microsoft Windows, store with over 700,000 songs, and over 70 millions sales in one year, Apple iTune is definately the winner of online music store.
I am surprised to know that Sony Connect only support 4 version of MS Windows! I thought support Windows version from Windows 9x to Windows XP is de facto for a windows application? No?
Wondering why don’t we have online music store that support open source platform like Linux and BSDs? Hmm… 
