In the article, Best Buy to buy Napster for $121 million, Best Buy is planning on buying Napster, the digital music website for $121 million in cash to try to take away some of iTunes market share. iTunes currently has over 70% of market share and they want to join forces to try to help Napster take some of that away. This article is very interesting in the sense that I never thought that anyone would ever be able to take down iTunes and their market share by even a little bit. Maybe if more companies were involved it would be more plausible, but Napster, which already has a negative feeling associated with their name does not seem like they could really make an impact on iTunes. I am a loyal iTunes fan and also a loyal Best Buy fan, however, I do not think even with cheaper music, I’d switch over to Napster. With having my iPhone, iTunes makes downloading music onto my phone as simple as pie and I would not want to deal with another music site if I wanted to make my library bigger.
