Something I’ve been wondering ever since Apple announced its iPhone SDK was whether it’ll allow rival music stores like Amazon and eMusic to launch apps for the iPhone to sell their music. In an ideal world, Apple would welcome the competition and be confident that iTunes will be able to take them on, but something tells me it might take the alternative approach and ban them.
However, some people are working on the idea in a distinctly unofficial style. Someone’s created a native iPhone app called iPhone Music Center, which lets you browse songs from Amazon’s US-based MP3 store on your iPhone, then buy and download them. Amazon sells DRM-free MP3s, so in theory they play on the iPhone without any problems.
This is an issue to watch, since it would make sense for rival stores to try and compete with iTunes on the iPhone itself, but Apple’s policy remains to be seen.
iPhone Music Center website (via iPhone World)
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