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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."
In Soviet Russia, anniversary YEARS YOU!!!
still not available in Canada
screw you Crapple
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Have we come to the point, with "monthly anniversaries" and similar perverted uses, that the actual meaning of "anniversary" has to be explained?
Oxford Dictionary: The yearly return of a noteworthy date... [L anniversarius returning yearly, f. annus year + versus turning + -arius -ARY1; used as n. in med.L anniversaria (sc. dies day), -arium (sc. festum feast); cf. (O)Fr. anniversaire.]
when you consider the fact that lil' Bow-Wow gets 6 grand a month to buy iTunes on his G5 from his dad, Snoop-dog, and think about that fact that most music artists have Macs at home because that is what they work with in the studio, and many of them are super rich and have kids, it would not surprise me that many of the songs come from Macs.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
thank god for Bit Torrent
I care. But, then again, I'm currently sniffing the skid marks I made in my briefs.
Who the fuck is "Apple-Q", and why should I give a fuck about him hunting lions in Africa?
You shut the fuck up. You fucking fucker.
I do love work. I'd tell you about the sensations I'm enjoying right now, banging my secretary, but I think you'd rather play Solitaire on XP.
That's good to know. I work with the RIAA, a wholely owned subsidiary of the IRS, and I will be knocking on your door shortly. When I ask you to bend over, I'll be sure to ask you, "with or without KY Jelly?"...
DRM involves machines refusing to do what they could do (play music) because they are coded not to. Open the source, and the DRM stops working.
So DRM and open source are completely incompatible. DRM and openness are incompatible.
i hear apple has all this good hardware. but after purchasing a mac g5 and an ipod. it is all the same, it crashes like the other hardware and software out there.
My car's CD player plays them fine, bitch-tits.
Look, my friend works at Apple, and he thinks you guys talking shit are a bunch of faggots. You need to get REAL jobs, then we'll talk.
Must be something wrong with your Linux box. Mine was fine. Run SuSE! But admitted - it's a genuine troll - hard to avoid - hard to catch.
Ahmen!
/. crowd to want everything for nothing. "Why don't they just XYZ." It's as if capitalism doesn't exist and everyone posting these messages is all about communism. We'll all just work really hard at something and expect nothing in return because everything is free.
You can always could on the
Makes me ill!
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
You mean to say there's a demand for buying music online? :shock:
April fool's was 26 days ago, you're a little late.
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who ever over pays on iTunes.com to get their "eletronic only on iPod" copy of music, just knowning too little about this world, period.