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Doug Morris, head of Universal Music, plant a new music service that the competition enters into with Apple's iTunes Disturb. Morris consults before with other large societies as SonyBMG and Warner Music Group. The service want to let pay possible hardware manufacturers a fixed monthly sum to make numbers free of charge available on apparatuses for the consumer.

Underlying reasons for the foundation is the clouded relation between Morris and Steve Jobs. Initially worked the two enthousiastically together as supplier and seller of online music, but the sale conditions that Jobs put were too tight for Universal. Therefore the record company works now with monthly agreements for the sale via iTunes.

The message entices doubt from with analysts. According to Mark Mulligan of Jupiter Research is the success dubiously, because the independent labels stay away probably complete from the offer of the new service. The large record companies represent 'only' eighty per cent of the music offer. “That small labels its on digitally straight good organized and it appears unlikely that they cooperate at a music service of a dominant record company.”