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iTMS Sells 100,000,000th Song
Macslacker writes "At 10:26 PM PDT on Sunday, July 11, Apple apparently sold its 100 millionth song at the iTunes Music Store. While the contest may now be over, congrats to Apple for a job well done."
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And, in other news, Kazaa serves its 100-billionth song. And the RIAA serves its 1-billionth lawsuit. And the Slashborg respond with another 100 comments. Here, let me outline the next 99 for you:
1. "Apple rocks!"
2. "Apple fanboys suck!"
3. Late GNAA post.
4. "This proves the music industry isn't doing badly!"
5. Something about fruity names, dumb music players, and profit.
6. iPod raves.
7. Repeat comments 1-2.
8. OSX raves.
9. Inane remarks about a certain ex-Soviet country.
10. Repeat comments 1-2.
11. "RealPlayer sucks!"
12. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of iPods!
13. Repeat comments 1-2.
14. Something about how Bush is responsible for all of this.
15-99. Repeat comments 1-14.
At least the 200 Prince songs I downloaded in vain trying to get the 100,000,000th download weren't in vain... I think...
4. I for one welcome our iPod overlords.
After selling 100 million songs, now welcome 100 million hits within 1 hour...
The story is just in and now allready i'm getting just 1KB/s from that site. Looks like they can't handle the load at the moment. Suprising, because, AFAIK, Akamai is hosting Apple.com.
did they indeed? but what was the music track?
I'm just amazed at how they get the vinyl singles down the phone lines like that, and for 99c too, my word isn't this interweb wonderful?
Geez, you're right! I'm going to copy my friend's CDs and send a buck directly to the artists!
Do you have David Byrne's address?
What are the record companies going to do with their $75 million cut?
Sue Apple.
May the Maths Be with you!
All that for just 99 cents? I wish they would bring iTunes to Canada!! Even with the exchange rate, that's a deal!
Shouldn't that be:
"congrats to Jobs for an Apple well done"?
10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!
File this under "Too little, too late" but FWIW like most contests of these types there was "no purchase neccessary". With a careful reading of the official rules you would have discovered that sending an email message to itunes100@apple.com counted as an entry. Oh well...I wish I saw that before I bought all those Clay Aiken tracks...
I'm sorry but I must interject. Grammar Man is here to save you from Gramacide. Note the bolded portion in the above statement. My message to you is:
Should you find yourself in another situation like the above, remember what Grammar Man said: would've!*This message was furnished by Grammar Man. He approves this message*
I was hoping no one would comment about where they have recently placed their greased up yoda doll. I'm glad that won't get mentio.... oh...
I'd like introduce you to a wonderful (and patent free) invention I have been working on for years that could revolutionize the world as we know it. It's called not buying something you don't like. Now, rather than feeling as if the DMCA was shoved down your "throwt", or complaining that this service is forcing you to become a soulless, consume-on-demand sucker, you can actually take the drastic step of NOT USING THE SERVICE.
Don't be frightened, it is clear from your posting that you feel there is a gun to your head when it comes to purchasing RIAA songs from iTMS but let me assure you there is not. You are actually free to NOT spend your money, and keep your soul and throwt intact.
I hope you enjoy this newfound freedom for years to come.
Finkployd
Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas downloaded Somersault (Dangermouse remix) by Zero7; the 100 millionth song purchased from the iTunes music store. He will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, and a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create the ultimate music library for his new iPod.
;-)
And as the poor guy might be on dialup, he can now spend the rest of his life putting his music collection together
The correct usage is: would've never bought
I think a proper pedagogue and sesquipedalian would insist upon eschewing the contraction. The real horror was using "of" instead of "have."
I bet Hilary Rosen's mailbox is full of links to this article.
"Derp de derp."
That is not what we call a monopoly :)
:) How come MP3s and WAVs and CDs aren't proprietary? They are you know. When was the last time you wrote your own MP3 player or CD player? MP3s are just as legally bound as AACs.
To be perfectly clear, you are stating that Apple is a monopoly because they are the sole vendor of the hardware, software, and music, right?
Is Ford a monopoly of Tauruses? Yes. Does that make Ford a monopoly? No. There are competitors to iTunes. Music Match and Windows Media Player. There are competitors to iTunes. Walmart, Napster, and Rhapsody. There are competitors to the iPod. Dell Jukebox, iRivers, MuVos, and Nomads. There are even competitors to the Mac. HPs, IBMs, Dells, and Gateways.
You want an explanation for how Apple escapes the critcism Microsoft gets for proprietary and monopoly?
Apple hasn't utilized their sucess in the music field to dictate legal and contract issues with venders, oems, consumers, and suppliers. See Compaq, Netscape, Sun, etc.
Apple hasn't relied on monopoly status to carry them through. Otherwise known as resting on your laurels. Microsoft's biggest competition is older versions of OSes and Office suites. Apple has to contend with Windows and Linux and everything else. Ask everyone who's had a buggy, leaky, exploited OS and browser.
As for proprietary... How exactly do you mean that AAC is proprietary? Just because you can't figure out how to download a third party player that plays DRM AACs? There are at least two I know of
Are you upset because you've bought into the Microsoft scheme and lost big (spyware, viruses, trojans, exploits, and flaky reliability)? Or because you are confused because Apple goods cost more, look better, and are otherwise unattainable in your world?
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