spigidygak

Apple reports they have sold over 1,000,000 songs on their new music service. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003...usicstore.html

Pretty impressive number considering there is an estimated 5million users on os x (most still using os 9 which doesn't support the new store). Also I doubt most of that 5 million are actual home based computers for personal use and not in a work environment. But its been only the first week and I bet most of the downloads were from people who just lost control of their mouse. I tested out the service and its great. . . but scarily too easy to go crazy on. Funny how they leave the "one-click" shopping as the default. Hopefully this does well and more people put their money where their mouth is.

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mcs328

Pretty good. I think 1 million bucks shows a lot of promise. Multiply that number by 20 when it's open to PC users then they have a good thing going. Of course it just takes the Music industry to get greedy and hike up the prices and start restricting the downloads to f*ck it all up. Hopefully they'll take a hands off approach and let Apple do it's thing.

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mcs328

Are you saying I'm a zealot cuz I don't own an Apple anything. But if you mean the ppl buying 1 mil songs well I dunno about them...maybe they are zealots. Hmm...pretty sure they are. I think I rather have Steve Jobs get richer than Bills Gates or the Recording industry. That's IF I had to choose and somehow legal ramifications hit closer to home. Of course free is free and so that's what I think the majority of ppl around the world will continue to do even when they make it PC accessible.

spigidygak

Eh. . . I'd rather neither of the three. Steve Jobs might be the ever so slight of the lesser of the evils but he puts out too much of an elitest attitude. Don't get me wrong I love my apple gear but. . . that guy just irks me. I think it has to do with all those whacky mac users that think its apple or death or something like that. They just think jobbies is the best thing since sliced nougat.

And suprise its not apple making the big profit on this. The 99 cents gets split 65 to the record labels, 33 to apple. So. . . might be a while before they recover the 10 million or whatever it costed them to setup the server farms for the music service. i'm just couting down to see Dell or MS have a music service pop up since apple is at work on an itunes for windows. Supposedly musicmatch is going to release something soon.

Dave_7

And he says "REALLY" a lot. Dude... buy a thesaurus and read.

That drives me nutz.



Dave.

mcs328

Yeah I don't like his elitiest attitude either. From what I remember in my business management class, Apple would have gone under if he didn't come back. So now that he's got the iMac and iPod and i-whatever he just cocky/arrogant about his accomplishments. However I think him and AMD slow down WINTEL takeover/monopoly.

So what part of that 66 cents goes to the artist?? Do they get screwed b/c I remember that in their contracts some artists don't get paid by digital mediums. They get paid for airtime and physical sales like cassettes and CDs.

mojo

jobs was right tho. too much shi7 out there that doesn't work right because it went the other way. if apple was embraced instead of ppl being just plain cheap, then mac would be more of a standard and prices would be lower...which would in turn have allowed more ppl access to good stuff that works more consistently.

i don't see why anyone should dislike mac at all

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Merlin

Psst, it is not the Mac but rather the Mac user that is at the root of the distain.

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spigidygak

DING DING DING!!! 10 points. Those freakish weird zealots that think steve jobs is god. . . (well sure he saved apple and runs the company well . . . but a little humility wouldn't hurt) those freak mac people make me ashamed of admitting I love apple.

I'm not sure what part of the 65 cents goes to the artist. i'm sure it matters between each label, my guess is no more than a couple copperheads a song. Hopefully the indie labels that are dying to sign up will be more generous. Afterall, they have to be making a better profit level this way. No physical devliverables to the customer and apple takes care of the network headache.

mojo

hey ding ding ( ), what do you think 'nix users think when all the windows users go on about how their OS is superior, and blindly go into the upgrade loop just because they buy into the idea that it's necessary? gates ain't much different...'cept that ppl say they don't like him, then just do what he says anyways

spigidygak

I don't so much as hate bill gates as much. . . steve balmer disturbs me greatly.