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• Can large record companies maintain their position in a digitally mobile market?
• Will the mobile handset continue to compete against stand alone digital music devices, or will they develop as combined technologies?
Creating revenue from mobile music has also evolved, as the content and the method of access has become more sophisticated. Early subscription methods of high payments posed a low user experience which threatened to push all but the most dedicated niche markets away from the content. Digital distribution and mobile music has responded to the requirements of consumers in both the music providers and the mobile web. Charges on the mobile web have decreased and this has opened up the space for mobile music and increased the incentive for mobile subscribers to