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iTunes Music Store hits Billionth Download

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hitting-the-bigtime dept.

SirWraith writes "In case anyone hasn't realized Apple has had a counter going up to a billion for a few weeks now. Apparently last night, they hit the mark. From ABC News: 'Apple says Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Mich., was the lucky audiophile who downloaded "Speed of Sound" by Brit pop band Coldplay, giving the Cupertino, Calif., company bragging rights to the 10-figure milestone. Thanks to a generous prize package from Apple, Ostrovsky will now use a $10,000 iTunes music card to keep those downloads flowing on his new 20-inch iMac computer, and listen to his favorite tunes on one of the 10 60GB iPods.'"

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  1. Re:Audiophile? by arevos · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was about to say the same thing. 128kbit AAC files don't quite seem up to 'Audiophile' standards.

  2. Re:Audiophile? by Bazzalisk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Begone with your value-judgements.

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  3. Audiophiles? by kitzilla · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Apple says Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Mich., was the lucky audiophile who downloaded "Speed of Sound" by Brit pop band Coldplay ...

    There are audiophiles using iTunes? When did this happen? ;-)
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  4. 10 iPods??? by Dan!+Dan!+Dan! · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Isn't there a limit on how many devices you may put your itunes songs on? Isn't that limit lt 10

  5. I find it hard to believe that it was coldplay by stolen-powerbook · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Doesn't it seem like a very well-placed gimmick that Coldplay was the 1 billionth song downloaded. Don't they have some agreement with apple already? Seems a bit too convienent.

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  6. Re:Contribution of iTMS to iPod success seems smal by Inda · · Score: 0, Redundant

    hmm. I have 140 tunes on my 2gb (1.8gb without the marketing speak) Nano at it's full. 8 of those tunes are 1 hour long each so I suppose they can count as 10 tunes each. All at around 192kbps.

    250 little photos totalling a few megabytes.

    500 tunes on average my arse.

    6 hours battery life on full volume if I'm lucky.

    And it's covered in tiny little scratches even though it's only ever lived in my key-less, coin-less pocket...

    So dissapointing. I now wish I'd choosen a different MP3 player. Teach me for being a fashion sheep I suppose. Baaaaaaaaaa.

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