Should Apple take a chance with music subscriptions?

It’s hard to figure why anyone would do any prospecting in the stony terrain of digital-music subscriptions.

This week, Best Buy acquired the remade and beleaguered version of Napster for a song. The deal is likely bad news for RealNetwork’s Rhapsody, the current engine behind Best Buy’s digital music store and one of the pioneers in music subscriptions. (I wrote a sidebar about the troubles RealNetworks’ Rhapsody may face if Best Buy walks.) Read More