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gigaom.com - 9/22/2008

SanDisk SlotMusic Cards Are Destined to Fail

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Om weighs in on what I personally think is the stupidest thing in music distribution in the last 5 years or so. Physical distribution of music is an anachronism, but somebody at SanDisk obviously didn’t get the memo. Technorati Tags: analysis , business , concept , distribution ...

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sandisk.com - 9/29/2008

16GB capacity SanDisk available at Best Buy & Verizon Wireess

— sandisk.com — Best Buy Mobile and Verizon Wireless Stores Are First to Carry New 16GB Capacity Milpitas, Calif. September... 29, 2008 SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash memory products, today announced it is bringing to market its 16GB* ... (more) 16GB capacity SanDisk available at Best Buy & Verizon ...

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businessweek.com - 9/22/2008

SanDisk Launches Preloaded 'slotMusic' Cards

— businessweek.com — In the digital download age, the memory chip maker and the four major music labels will sell... albums loaded onto microSD cards by Arik Hesseldahl Once again, memory chip maker SanDisk is making a push into the digital music market. SanDisk, the ... (more) SanDisk Launches Preloaded 'slotMusic' Cards

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 9/22/2008

What's in the Cards for SanDisk? Music

— bits.blogs.nytimes.com — A new music format will hit the stores later this year: Albums on tiny MicroSD memory cards.... They fit in 1 billion cellphones, can plug into PCs, and may cost less than $10. (more) What's in the Cards for SanDisk? Music

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• TheFlo

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  "Destined to fail."

   

  What a pessimistic title. 

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SanDisk slotMusic SD cards offer preloaded copyright-free music
Gizmo Watch — ... as Mac and will be housed in a sleeve. Pricing and Availability: SanDisk has kept the price and release date of the slotMusic SD cards under wraps. So, you would have to wait and watch. Watch This: If music CDs have a smaller, lighter alternative, we are all for the idea. And since the music is copyright un-protected, we couldn’t have asked for anything better. Word around the Web: Om Malik from GigaOM says: They are going to target phones with MicroSD ...

Another Day, Another Format
GEARFUSE — ... dust for years to come. You must remember, dear reader, that no one buys CDs anymore, let alone some fucked up microSD format . Only 29 albums will be launching with SlotMusic, making selection very limited. Om Malik has a hell of a point when he brings up that this is exactly like MiniDisk. Except that was the 1990s and everything was cool in the ’90s. I love the above image from the SlotMusic website. I had no idea the iPod/Zune had microSD slots! Oh wait… Link [ via ]

slotMusic: It's just albums on microSD cards
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... There's no chance that slotMusic will become the dominant way for music to be delivered to customers. Digital downloads aren't the future of music — iTunes has proved they're the present. Worse, slotMusic cards will have just a single album apiece, necessitating swaps to change albums, something that's been antiquated in digital media players since the beginning. ...

SanDisk's slotMusic gets physical, but why?
jkOnTheRun — ... . The latest and greatest idea appears to be combining their core competencies in flash memory and digital audio players to create: music on a microSD card. Yes... you buy a microSD card that has a complete album on it. I understand the target device, which are the millions of phones with a slot for this type of format, but those devices already have a music mechanism: the data connection that's inherent in the phone itself. SanDisk is not only competing with downloaded and burned music from online retailers here, they're also likely to butt heads with music services from the ...

SanDisk announces microSD cards full of DRM-free music
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... initiative today, bringing you tunes from EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner record labels to a brand new mobile-friendly medium. Initial reactions have been generally ...

SanDisk Changes Strategy On Digital Music Players
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... The idea hasn't been met with great enthusiasm from bloggers. So is SanDisk making the right bet or should it be concede the ring to the iPod and get out of the music player business entirely? ...

New SanDisk Music Player to Launch March 31
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... As more consumers give up CDs and move towards digital music, there is also the question of whether the market really wants to take a step back towards physical media, this time in the form of memory cards filled with music. ...