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iTunes Music Store - 'Coolest Invention of 2003'

Posted by simoniker on from the mercurial-jobs dept.

Pingsmoth writes "Time Magazine has just named the iTunes Music Store as their Top Coolest Invention of 2003. Also among this year's favorites are 'fish-skin bikinis, a new love drug, the car that parks itself, and the invisible man'."

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  1. iTunes? by heironymouscoward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This counts as an "invention"?

    Look, the absolutely coolest invention of 2003 is the USB wristwatch. My watch holds all the essential stuff I used to keep on a diskette. Nothing helps bonding like showing people that your watch can store porn. Or a PowerPoint presentation. Or your latest baby photos. Whatever they need: my watch has it.

    But iTunes? I can't carry it on my wrist.

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  2. Spot the connection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Much as I like iTunes... spot the AOL Time Warner and iTunes connection.

  3. Still! by McDutchie · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article:
    When Steve Jobs holds forth in public, it's usually to a mob of fawning Apple-ites--the true believers who still develop software and accessories for Apple products. (emphasis mine)
    I got to admit, there is something cool about being an endangered species facing imminent extinction*. You get so much admiring and attention, you get to be on lots of TV documentaries and in lots of newspaper articles, and everyone wants to be like you because you're beautiful. :-p

    * Especially if you've been facing imminent extinction for some 20-odd years.

  4. Fuck Yeah by cscx · · Score: 5, Interesting

    iTunes for Windows is my official new favorite MP3 player.

    I am proceeding to rip all my 500+ CDs into iTunes. With one click.

    Winamp has served me well for many, years, but it lacks the snazzy playlist/library editor, and the ability to transfer music from CD, to the hard drive, tag it, and add it to my playlist at the click of a button. Literally.

    Sure, it's a little slow, but who cares. Its functionality is unmatched. The music store is snazzy, too.

    Good move, Apple, with iTunes for Windows. You may see a future Mac / iPod customer soon...