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Apr 03, 08 - 02:17 pm Comment from: flappo

OH JOY !!!

so much for digital downloads , eh ?

I don't know, the slope is decreasing.

time for some M$ fud to be thrown around.

I guess the zune is starting to hurt the ipod.

oh no oh no

>>October 26, 2004: Available to music lovers in the European Union

should be: Available to some music lovers in the European Union. There is still no iTunes store is many EU countries

Apr 03, 08 - 02:30 pm Comment from: TowerTone

It's time for someone to trot out the 'iTunes is killing Main Street' argument, forcing all those small (and large) music store to shutter.

(Hey, they do it to Wal-Mart...)

Apr 03, 08 - 02:31 pm Comment from: DogGone

The 4 B mark was reached in Dec 2007. Still the trend is not accelerating

Apr 03, 08 - 02:36 pm Comment from: NCMacMan

One data point does not make a trend. Sure it took one month more to sell a billion songs than the previous period, but who cares -- just the record labels. . .

Yeah the trend is worrying - going from an exponential growth to just a linear one

Apr 03, 08 - 02:42 pm Comment from: oh no my shorts

The record labels passed some gas recently about how Amazon was #2. It's amusing to see the NPD report placing them at #4... and dropping...

Apr 03, 08 - 02:43 pm Comment from: flappo

blame the industry for producing UTTER crap

not apple

they only work with what they're given

did ya see the other day - mariah carey with 17 number ones - beating elvis !!!

and 3 behind The beatles !!

WTF !!??

i rest my case

modern music sucks

Now if they continue to convert to 256 AAC I'll be happier. 128 AAC doesn't cut it for me. Sorry.

Now that we got number one in music with iTunes, it's time to do the same in applications with AppStore. And all the rest will follow...

I'd like to see Walmart's numbers added to the above chart in order to compare their growth with that of Apple's.

I bet my aunt and uncle on that Apple Cider doesn't actually hear the difference between 128 AAC and 256 AAC.

@MK

Maybe it's the EU countries of 2004, more countries in th union now.

Apr 03, 08 - 03:06 pm Comment from: Zune Tang®

Big fat hairy deal. Zune Marketplace is poised to crush the I-Tunes store and free music lovers of Apple's proprietary music with Microsoft's wonderful offerings and magnificent exclusive offers. You'll see.

Your potential. Our passion.™

Apr 03, 08 - 03:09 pm Comment from: Jubei

With numbers like these, the labels continue to try and destroy iTunes/Apple with backhanded deals. I'm shocked that Zune Moronstore hasn't cut sleazy deal with them already.

Apr 03, 08 - 03:15 pm Comment from: HMCIV

Interesting Note: MDN's Chart when flipped upside down, closely models the trajectory of a chair flying across the room in Steve Ballmer's office.

Congrats to Eddy and everyone at iTunes on becoming number one. Well done Apple! You've worked hard to get there, you'll need to work harder to stay there.

Apr 03, 08 - 03:25 pm Comment from: Zune Tang®

"I'm shocked that Zune Moronstore hasn't cut sleazy deal with them already."

And you won't, because Microsoft doesn't do business like Apple does. Sleazy, underhanded, manipulative and criminally monopolistic practices as well as fear mongering and format lock-in strategies might be in the Apple playbook but not in Microsoft's. Redmond will proudly let consumer-focused quality rule the day while Apple wallows in the gutter. Think different, MAC sheep.

Your potential. Our passion.™

"Redmond will proudly let consumer-focused quality rule the day while Apple wallows in the gutter. Think different, MAC sheep."

If Vista was the result of consumer-focused quality, I'd like to mee the blind person they used for their QA when they worked on the GUI.

"Sleazy, underhanded, manipulative and criminally monopolistic practices as well as fear mongering and format lock-in strategies might be in the Apple playbook but not in Microsoft's. "

Um, you ARE looking at Microsoft's playbook. Ballmer simply slapped one of those Apple decals on the front so it doesn't look like he owns it.

Microsoft is to computers as ebola is to monkeys™.

Apr 03, 08 - 03:57 pm Comment from: Ampar

To Bluestreak:

Re: Zune Tang

With all due respect, please note what just happened:
http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/73/67/23246773.jpg

Apr 03, 08 - 04:06 pm Comment from: Ampar

"modern music sucks"

And Britney makes approximately $958 per hour, every hour of every day whether she's working, passed out, running over someone or ordering drive-thru food for her entourage. She could spend an hour in the crapper and come out $1,000 ahead.

Apr 03, 08 - 04:26 pm Comment from: BiZarRo BaLlmEr

Wow.
Does anyone think Apple hits the 200 million ipod mark this time next year?
Maybe sooner?

I like that the plot that MDN made was done in Numbers and not Excel!

Apr 03, 08 - 05:28 pm Comment from: MCCFR

Apple reported that it had reached four billion sometime late in the first quarter of this financial year and it's logged in my Excel spreadsheet as 25/12/07 which was the last real day of that quarter.

In fact, Apple are far closer to 5 billion than 4 billion as we speak – I'm estimating they're anywhere between 4.6 and 4.75 billion to be more precise.

if you do the math, it only took about 5 days longer to get to 4B Then to get the 3rd billion.
Not a whole month.

I think the graph is a little off.

What's really amazing is that on the same day that iTunes is officially the #1 music retailer, the record cartels launched their latest effort to take it down -- MySpace Music.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/03/technology/myspace_music.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008040313

Most product manufacturers bend over backwards to please their largest retail customers. These guys are actually conspiring to destroy their largest retailer.

I just don't get it.

Apr 03, 08 - 06:29 pm Comment from: donnie

Impressive, indeed. To think the scum bags that run the major labels even had a clue. The price of CD's is ridiculous. Being able to pick and choose worthwhile tunes out of the pottage is an iTunes advantage. And, iTunes Plus offers higher quality downloads.

Missed ya Zune...

Where ya been?

"And, iTunes Plus offers higher quality downloads."

This is the new world we live in. People don't seem to understand that instead of the music being squeezed down by 50 times, iTunes Plus only squeezes it down only 25 times.

Hell, CD's are only 16 bit, not 24 bit. We should have gone up, not down. And not waaaaay down like we did with MP3/MP4

@ Ampar

LOL

there's always one

Apr 04, 08 - 07:38 am Comment from: Big Al

@ Your Mom Bluray,

What your eyes can't register and your ears can't hear does not need to be included on a digital download or physical media, for that matter.

This explains why the Ugly Music Brotherhood were throwing out all those stories about Amazon doing so well the other week...

Apr 04, 08 - 11:55 am Comment from: Ampar

To hs:
I thought it was an apt pictorial description.