Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days

ajkst1 writes "According to an Apple press release, the iTunes Music Store has sold 1 million songs since its release on the Windows platform on October 16. Also of note is the 1 million downloads of the iTunes music program itself. When the iTMS was first released, it took a full week to sell a million songs. The store has now had 14 million songs purchased and downloaded since its original launch in April."

Comments

Re:Wrong

[GreyPoopon]

for christ's sakes, this thing hasn't even been out a week and everyone's bitching about what it doesn't do.

You're new here, aren't you? :-)

Re:Wrong!

[Anonymous Coward]

We need to DEMAND nothing less than total SHN, FLAC, APE, and OGG support. Anything less is denying the most vocal .5% of users the features they can't live without.

Proactive dissing

[Infonaut]

I'm sure it's just annoying the hell out of some folks that Apple is showing so much early success with iTunes for Windows and the new iTMS. So in the spirit of service, I've rounded up some assaults on Apple that should mollify the critics.

1) Apple blew it. They came out with iTunes for Windows too late. Ha ha hah! Buymusic.com is already there first. The vaporous Dell and Microsoft services are much better on paper than than this pathetic Apple offering.

2) AAC? Beh. Give me the open standard. Give me WMP! Support standards, Apple!

3) Black turtlenecks? Who wears black turtlenecks?

4) 99 cents a song? What, do you think I'm RICH?! Give me songs for free. Artists don't get much money when they go through the iTMS anyway, so why should I give the artists anything at all? Answer me that, man.

5) They're just trying to sell iPods. So that means that even if I get the iTunes app for free and use it, Apple is screwing me over. Yeah, they're screwing me over. That's it.