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Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bracing-for-impact dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this AppleInsider.com article published earlier this morning, Apple has planned an event for next Thursday to formally introduce their iTunes player and online music store for the Windows platform."

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  1. The wait by chia_monkey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Great...now we have to wait a whole week just to see what is released. iTunes sounds good, but what else do they have up their sleeve?

    The bigger wait though is maybe a month or so...to see just how well it does. iTunes Music Store was a wild success the first day, the time to their milestone song sales, and so forth. All done on machines that command a mere 5% of the market share. So...what happens when the other 95% gets to play?

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  2. Creative Nomad compatibility? by Sean80 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't suppose iTunes would be compatible with anything but the iPod? Yeah, my fiancee has one, and they're small and cool and all, but goddamn if they're not expensive. So, I went out and bought myself a Creative Nomad. Does anybody know if there'll be any way to get iTunes songs onto it?

  3. I hope its better than Quicktime by bogie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Quicktime isn't exactly the best performing multimedia app going on Windows. Its a bit slow and files that play perfectly on low end Macs can play like crap on fairly high-end PC's.

    I also hope it themeable because by default the color it pretty ugly. I don't know that much about ITunes, but one thing I do know is that unless it obeys XP themes or like I said is themeable, its going to stick out like a sore thumb.

    Either way I still look forward to trying it out when I get a chance and also of course trying out the Music store.

    btw how are they handling the whole DRM thing?

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  4. Re:I fear this is too late by cK-Gunslinger · · Score: 5, Interesting

    True, but some people do prefer quality over quantity. Like Apple or not, iTunes was a rather well-designed, well-planned, and well-implemented venture. The copy-cat Windows clones, to date, have had loads of shortcomings and problems, and were generally met with ho-hum enthusiasm.

    Now, whether this was due to the quality of the service, or the general differences between Apple and PC users remains to be seen.