Apple Announces 25 Million Song Downloads

Tweder writes "On Apple's iTunes site, Apple has announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over 25 Million songs from the iTunes Music Store. It seems the launch of the ITMS on the Windows platform has boosted sales tremendously." I suppose this is where I am expected to say something along the lines of, "I thought the recording industry said that this business model wouldn't work, that people won't pay for what they can download for free?" So, there you go.

Comments

25 Million Served?

[Alu3205]

Is anyone else sick of hearing about every "mile stone" iTMS reaches in sales? I think it's fanastic, but this is getting to be too much. I think there's been stories about the five hundred thousand, one million, five million and fifteen million songs downloaded.

These little annoucements remind me of that sign that used to be under McDonalds "over 100 million served!" Apple must be pretty desperate to get iTunes going. Either way I can't wait for the 50 million download thread.

Re:Where does your money go?

[hal9k]

So, 15 songs on ITunes total $9.99? Construct your argument right before slapping someone someone in the face on slashdot. Bitch.

Stupid

[Anonymous Coward]

"Quality"

No. 128kb/s isn't that good. Maybe when you listen on crappy earbuds or on a Mac speaker its fine. But if you really care about sonic quality, you'd be horrified by what Apple (and everybody else) is selling.

"You can be sure that the song you just downloaded doesn't go like "What the f*ck do you think you're doing!"

Hitsquad is irrelevant. There are places to get high quality (i.e. CD quality, not the crappy stuff apple and others sell) music for free. I won't tell you, because I never clue in the clueless.

"Peace of mind"

You're too silly.

"Moral Satisfaction "

Now you're stupid. I feel cheated when I pay for music. At least if I paid $1/song for DRM crippled, low-quality music.

But hey, you're getting dog shit on a plate and thanking Apple for it. Knock yourself out. I'm just laughing at you for being so dumb.

Because you're being dumb.

Close the thread! We have a winner!

[Ciderx]

> Hi Adolph

Godwin's law invoked. You lose!

I don't work for Apple

[Lord Kano]

No thank you. Unless you missed school on the day where they taught it, it's the providors responsibility to get the content that the consumers want. If they don't, it's their loss.