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Samsung: No plans for music store, working with partners
Contrary to previous reports, Samsung said today that it does not plan to launch its own digital music store. However, the company did say that it will help its online music partners in hopes of boosting sales of Samsung digital audio players.
“We’re not interested in the online music services market but we plan to offer technical support to our partners to make their services easier and fancier and that would increase our hardware sales,” Choi Gee-sung, the president of Samsung’s digital media division told reporters after a meeting with analysts.
Samsung’s partners include Napster, Microsoft and Yahoo Music. The company is also the main supplier of flash memory to Apple for use in iPods.
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yeah, I knew that it won’t be happened, and can’t compete with Apple if you don’t have plenty of contents in advance. Samsung! forget this business, just focus on what you do now.
Posted by archurban on November 3, 2005 at 3:16 PM (PDT)