Will iPhone rock music industry?
Posted on 06/27/2007 LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Carlos Gomez could be the recording industry’s ideal mobile music customer. His phone is his music player of choice and he spends about $100 a month buying songs for it — often on impulse after hearing a tune on his car radio. That’s why he’s not buying an iPhone. It’s not that he doesn’t want one. The 24-year-old office clerk is mesmerized by the look and feel of Apple Inc.’s uber-sleek new phone that’s a combination cell phone, iPod media player and Web-browsing gadget. He particularly likes its touch-screen navigation. But Gomez says he won’t buy the handset because users can’t use it to buy and download music over a wireless network. Instead, iPhone owners will have to buy music via their computers and then download it to their phones, a process called side-loading. “I’m not the type of person that likes to wait until I get home,” Gomez said. “If I hear it, I want it there and then.” The arrival of the iPhone on Friday has stoke
