Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
A music service exclusive to owners of the Amazon Echo at half the price of competitors?
Amazon wants to launch a music subscription service that would be half the cost of rival services and run only on its Echo smart speaker, according to Recode.
The service would offer unlimited, ad-free music for $4 to $5 a month, half what Spotify and Apple Music charge, sources told the site. The internet retail giant would like to launch the service as early as next month but has yet to finalize deals with the major recording labels, sources told the site.
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Amazon already offers an Amazon Music service as part of its $99 Amazon Prime annual subscription package, but subscribers have access to a limited catalog of music.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @08:50AM
At $4 the price is too high.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Tuesday August 30 2016, @09:11AM
They would have to pay me to use a speaker tied to Amazon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @09:23AM
>speaker
*cool spy device, precursor to corporate AI slave-spies
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday August 30 2016, @11:33PM
My friend has two. The only use of that lame paper towel tube is turning his lights on and sometimes weather in the morning. When I saw the box it came in I was almost in disbelief Something like: Alexa is always on and always listening. I asked him is he was cool with the possibility of spying and his response was that something like, "nah, I'm too boring."
(Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Wednesday August 31 2016, @01:50AM
I've two. More or less same uses as your friend.
And yeah. I wish I was interesting enough to spy on.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday August 31 2016, @05:48AM
The problem is that they now spy on everybody, and only decide if you are interesting at some point in the future.