Best Buy on Thursday said it will introduce a new music service with digital music player maker SanDisk Corp. and music software company RealNetworks Inc. to create the latest competing service to Apple’s iPod and iTunes combination.
Best Buy, the top U.S. consumer electronics retail chain said it would use Real’s Rhapsody subscription service. The service is designed to work hand-in-hand with the new line of SanDisk Sansa e200R Rhapsody digital music players, much in the way that iPods work with iTunes.
The service and players will both be available starting October 15.
Several major device manufacturers and software makers have been trying to make a dent in the dominant market shares of Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod digital media player and its compatible iTunes Music Store software.
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