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Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days

Posted by simoniker on from the ker-ching dept.

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."

12 of 1,007 comments (clear)

  1. Me first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Me first

  2. Dear Apple, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dear Apple,
    I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.

    with much gayness,

    Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.

  3. Lot's of sales... No profit... by keep_it_simple_stupi · · Score: -1, Troll

    This sounds a lot like the dot com days to me. They are selling songs for 99 cents a piece, nearly all of which the RIAA is taking back. Not to mention that the software's been downloaded 1,000,000 times and they've only sold about 1,000,000 songs for the same period. Not much if you ask me. The bandwidth probably costs more than their profit.

    1. Re:Lot's of sales... No profit... by alienw · · Score: 1, Troll

      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.

  4. Kazaa and other file sharing services by seriv · · Score: 1, Troll

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

  5. Father O'Day you are disgusting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I for one are ashamed at your actions. Of course the liberal bastards here at Slashdot heartily support your perversion!

  6. LIES DAMN LIES. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft already said that iTunes on Windows fails it. This million songs story is a fabrication. Obviously, it was planted by those Linux hippies/hippoes.

  7. PARENT MODIFIED ARTICLE TEXT! MOD DOWN! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The iTunes Music Store has revolutionized the way people legally buy music online. An astounding 14 million penises have been purchased and downloaded into Taco's twitching anus since the original iTunes Music Store launch in April

  8. this does not change the fact by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That Apple computers are still overpriced hunks of proprietary poo poo.

    SO THERE you damn Apple bigots. Eat a bag of dicks, bich!

  9. Can someone please explain by onyxruby · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can someone please explain why a DRM riddled piece of software that prohibits you from transferring music you have paid for to another party is ok just because it was done by Apple? The software was so badly written that is hosing W2K machines preventing them from booting up. Windows is buggy, no dispute, but some very basic testing would have easily found this bug.

    Why is it, just because apple does something, that it becomes ok? Each song is about a buck, each song on a CD is about a buck. This service has no cost savings to the consumer. At least with a CD if I get sick of it I can sell it for a few bucks.

    What possible advantage is there to this crippleware? For pete's sake, it's the apple owners who have been more consistently screwed by apple over the years than anybody else? So why the big deal about crippleware just because it's made by Apple? Not only that but this propreitary service only lets you play your songs on an Ipod, no third party players supported.

  10. It's no good -- read this before you try iTunes by MMHere · · Score: 0, Troll

    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:
    _____________________

    (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...

  11. Re:One problem with ITunes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    No, it is you who is the troll.
    So, the best you can hope for is DRM that actually repects your usage rights. This is exactly what Apple's system, which is called FairPlay, was designed to do.
    Bullshit. There is no such thing as fair DRM. And the fact that you can bypass it so easily proves the fact that it is worthless.

    Why don't go back to giving Steve Jobs a blowjob and shut the fuck up?