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iTunes One Year Anniversary Sparks Comparison
An anonymous reader writes "CNet News is running a story about the upcoming one year anniversary of Apple's iTunes service. It gives a pretty good summary of the year in online music, with a nice chart comparing each service's user base now and then. The most interesting quote in the article is from a record executive stressing that the industry is quietly hoping that the online music stores will start selling songs in compatible formats. As a sidenote, the headline story at the beginning is based off this page."
its OK and ontopic (according to the moderators) to trash Microsoft and their software in an Apple story, but when it comes to cricizing Apple, its a no-no.
How is this for censorship and hypocrisy?
I agree with the parent. Unfortunately, the meaning of "anniversary" has been perverted in the colloquial to mean "passage of an integer number of arbitrary time units". We can thank all the teenaged girls who want to celebrate their "three week anniversary" dating the captain of the football team until he dumps their sorry asses. There are few things that annoy me more than this usage.(*)
(*)Things that annoy me more:
(1) The interchangeable use of "their", "there", and "they're"; "your" and "you're", and "its" and "it's".
(2) Not having been captain of the football team so that I could have had an unlimited supply of easy girls in high school.(**)
(**) Then again, it is almost a universal rule that the people who were popular in high school ended up being losers, and the people who actually do interesting things were the nerds in high school. The problem of peaking too early.(***)
(***)Mod away!
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Not really... I'm on a weak little laptop running XP and it was fine... using firefox at least. dunno what would happen if i used internet explorer.