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iTunes Use Surges Past QuickTime, RealPlayer
QuatermassX writes "Forget increased sales of Mac computers, think media players. The iPod 'halo effect' shows its true power in recently compiled statistics from Nielsen/NetRatings and Apple. From the report on WebSiteOptimization.com: 'Podcasting is taking off and iPods are seemingly ubiquitous. Unique users of Apple's iTunes player should pass RealPlayer by mid-2006 with nearly 30 million users in the US alone. People are tuning in over twice as long with iTunes than with RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. As broadband penetration increases we are spending more time on our computers.'"
So people are finally realizing that RealPlayer and WMP suck. Good! Now if only this could happen with winblows...
We need a firefox for media....
They're working on it, it's call Songbird
ROFL Naturally that the user base will increase... Have you tried to install the new Quicktime with HD x264 support on a Windows platform recently... well you can't get the Quicktime 7 client alone. It's a buddled iTunesSetup.exe program you need to install.
Over the past week, I've installed Quicktime 7 five times, and removed iTunes 6 five times.
He he indeed you can remove the iTunes 6 as soon as you have Quicktime 7. But I guess most people will not do this operation.
Quick resume, over the past week, I've removed Apple iTunes more often than I've removed virus on my systems. Say if my statics are not wrong.. iTunes was removed 500% more often than Viruses...