Comes With Music: 7digital and Omnifone respond

You'd hardly expect rival music services to be all sweetness and light about Nokia's Comes With Music. UK download store 7digital and mobile music firm Omnifone have been giving their public responses to yesterday's announcement.7digital has gone in all guns blazing, suggesting that CWM is “fatally flawed” due to the songs being DRM-wrapped. “Nokia claims users will be able to keep any downloaded tracks forever, even if they decide not to renew their contract,” says MD Ben Drury in a statement. “In reality, 'forever' means for the lifetime of the device (typically 2 years) or computer they download to – users won’t be able to transfer their music to new, non-Nokia devices in the future.”Meanwhile, Omnifone CEO Rob Lewis has welcomed Nokia's announcement in his own statement, despite having been one of the louder critics of CWM in recent months. “Competition and innovation in this space can only be positive, helping to develop consumer appetite for mobile music services, growing the market for unlimited music, and ensuring the consumer has choice,” he says.Naturally, both companies are looking to establish their own services' merits over CWM. 7digital says DRM-free MP3s are better for consumers (it sells them) while Omnifone says “the [...]