McDonald's Billion-Song iTunes Giveaway

camperslo writes "The New York Post online has this story. "Less than a month after Pepsi announced a blockbuster deal to give away 100 million downloads from Apple's iTunes music service to its customers, McDonald's is close to a announcing a much bigger deal"." No matter what you think of iTunes, this is tremendous publicity for music on demand services in general. If the public gets a taste for it, this could be the beginning of the end for the audio CD.

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Lesson learned:

[hcetSJ]

Here, we see that Apple has learned the following lesson:

If you make your product available to the general public, and not just a close niche of (ultra)loyal customers, you can profit.

The question is, can they apply this lesson to other products like, say, computers?

way to go /.

[RestiffBard]

CmdrTaco I know you have a Mac. Have you considered NetNewsWire? Mayhaps that way you'd actually be able to keep up with the days friggin news.

This story broke this morning and by 1 o'clock was being denied and tossed aside.

Taco, love ya man, but if you want my advertisment impressions you're gonna have to do a tad better than late "news", poor grammar and spelling errors.