Fortune: Mobile Music Industry Eating Itself

Fortune magazine has a write-up of how the mobile music market is cannibalizing its own sales, with new, independent initiatives from Nokia and Sony Ericsson threatening to take mobile music sales away from the carriers’ own music services.

“Sony Ericsson and Nokia are blowing caution to the wind – and a raspberry at carriers – because they have little choice,” the article said. “Apple invaded their turf by bringing the popular iPhone to Europe in November, along with a business model that sucks music users away from carriers and onto Apple’s iTunes service.

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