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."

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Kazaa and other file sharing services

[seriv]

anyone got the stats on how other file sharing services stack up to iTunes? I bet iTunes is no where close.
-Seriv

Re:Lot's of sales... No profit...

[alienw]

So the record companies have no physical product to produce, they don't have to pay for the software, or the bandwidth, and they make 80% of the money for doing essentially nothing.

Doing nothing? Really? Looks like you've been smoking some good stuff lately. Music companies actually produce the music you buy off of iTMS. Apple is the company that essentially does nothing. How expensive is it to run a couple of servers and develop bloatware? It isn't, my crack-smoking friend. Now, finding good artists, recording them, and selling their music is the difficult part, and that's where the recording industry comes in.

It's no good -- read this before you try iTunes

[MMHere]

All I wanted to do was see what music they have available. They clutter up my system with several unnecessary pieces of bloated software, then REQUIRE a credit card # to simply browse what is available?

WHY iTunes is NO GOOD:
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(1) They require a valid credit card # before you can even begin to browse the "store." How about I give you that number when/if I find something I want to buy?

This would be like The GAP requiring you to hand over your credit card when you cross the threhold of their B&M store. When you give it to them, they swipe the card and copy all the info from it. When you leave, they keep the info but give the card back.

BLECH!

(2) Apple installs a bunch of stuff that is unnecessary on my system:

(2a) "iPod Service" appears in my services list, with an executable within \Program Files\iPod\bin.

I don't have an iPod, I don't need one. I certainly don't want this "service" running. So I nuke it.

(2b) a "qttask.exe" appears in my QuickTime folder and is set to run at startup (with a registry entry in HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run ).

I don't need that crap, so I nuke it as well.

(2c) Another app set to auto-run at startup (same location in the registry tree) is "iTunesHelper.exe" in the iTunes install folder. Why do I need this _always_ running even when I'm not using iTunes?

So I nuke it as well.

Ah things are a bit more comfy now.

So I run the iTunes application again.

(3) It re-installs all this stuff I just disabled, puts back the registry keys, re-installs iPod Service, iTunesHelper, and qttask.exe.

So I nuke them all, and set the NTFS permissions on all files involved to read-only (I nuke the fuckers permanently).

(Oh yeah, they "upgraded" my version of QuickTime without even asking me. I wonder what this will break down the road...)

I run iTunes yet again. No weirdo apps/services any more, and the iTunes app runs just fine, connecting to the Apple site without any problems. (Why did they need all that other cruft running in the background I wonder?)

So now maybe I can use this thing without all the clutter. ALAS! They still want my credit card info before they will let me browse the store!

This sucks.

So I nuke the entire freaking iTunes installation, and burn the installer. I will not use software that is this intrusive; I certainly will not hand over credit card info until I find something I want to purchase...