Apple's ringtones are not expensive compared to others
I do think it's ridiculous to have to purchase a ringtone separately after you already bought a tune, and there are ways of making them free from your own tunes or CDs anyway. But if you do buy ringtones from Apple, consider this, from David Pogue's column in the NYTimes a few days ago:
"As it turns out, that’s correct—at least compared with existing sources for ringtone sales. Pop song ringtones from T-Mobile and Sprint cost $2.50 apiece; from Verizon, $3. You don’t get to customize them, choose the start and end points, adjust the looping and so on. Incredibly, after 90 days, every Sprint ringtone dies, and you have to pay another $2.50 if you want to keep it. Verizon’s last only a year."
"As it turns out, that’s correct—at least compared with existing sources for ringtone sales. Pop song ringtones from T-Mobile and Sprint cost $2.50 apiece; from Verizon, $3. You don’t get to customize them, choose the start and end points, adjust the looping and so on. Incredibly, after 90 days, every Sprint ringtone dies, and you have to pay another $2.50 if you want to keep it. Verizon’s last only a year."
iPhone; MBP-15; iMacG5, Mac OS X (10.4.10)
