According to Nokia board member Daniel Hesse, the future of mobile phones, including the iPhone is not the ability to download content directly to the handset, but rather to “sideload it.” Sideloading is the act of downloading content such as music to your PC, then syncing it to your phone.
He explains that content can be downloaded faster via a wired broadband connection on a PC, rather than downloading it over-the-air on a mobile phone. “No matter how fast the wireless networks get here, the computer is always faster.”
In some ways I agree. I’d like to keep all of my music on my desktop, and transfer it to my iPhone, as it would just make organizing my music easier. Then you don’t have to worry about transferring the music from your phone to your PC. On the other hand, it would be nice to have the option of downloading a song anywhere. Say you hear a good song on the radio, then you could just download it and be done with it.
What do you guys think? If you had the choice would you download music directly to your phone via the iTunes store?
Nokia says “sideloading” key to iPhone, smartphones [via macnn]
how about a cell where you load up the song you want and when you connect it automatically downloads it for you?
I probably would download music directly from iPhone. My current mode of adding music to my library is by listening to my XM. For the house XM radio I just buy the song then and there off iTunes. For the XM that’s in the car, I hear a song I like and hit the memory button. It stores the artist and name of the song in memory for recall later. I’ll take that radio in the house once a week and buy every song off that stored list.
If I were to have the capability of purchasing music from iPhone, I certainly would for the songs that I discover on XM in my Car. Not while driving of course… ;-)
So, i am assuming the iPhone will be “download direct to iphone, then hook it up with your PC and it will sync back to the PC as well” sorta device. I really think that is what i would like, however either way is better than 2.50$ for a 15 second ringtone from the cingular music store.
I get a little frustrated when people start complaining that there will “only be 8 gigs” on the iphone. I don’t think it was ever intended to hold everything you have. Put on 2 movies and 300 songs, that should give you enough entertainment fot the day. Then on next sync load up something else.
[quote comment="3664"]So, i am assuming the iPhone will be “download direct to iphone, then hook it up with your PC and it will sync back to the PC as well” sorta device. [/quote]
I wouldn’t count on downloading music straight to the phone in the first iteration of iPhone.