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iTunes Music Store hits Billionth Download
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on Fri Feb 24, 2006 07:34 AM
from the hitting-the-bigtime dept.
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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what a scam (Score:5, Funny)
DON'T BELIEVE APPLE, if they offer you $10,000 open your eyes and see it's a SCAM to get YOUR MONEY!
40 Year Old Virgin (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.scottgant.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 31 2006, @03:12PM)
David: You know how I know that you're gay?
Cal: How? Cuz you're gay? and you can tell who other gay people are.
David: You know how I know you're gay?
Cal: How?
David: You like Coldplay.
1060 GB IPod? (Score:1)
Yay, math! (Score:1)
Anyone shooting for it (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Saturday February 05 2005, @08:35AM)
Lotta loot (Score:1)
I know they gave away free songs through Pepsi and others. But still... That's a good return for little effort right there.
Re:Lotta loot (Score:4, Funny)
(http://hydrogenproject.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday March 11 2006, @09:19PM)
The 10 iPods is weird though. I'd rather have one of the iPod commercial girls.
Yawn...who cares? (Score:2)
The RIAA was right (Score:5, Funny)
Audiophile? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://plf.zarb.org/)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:4, Funny)
Why does everyone focus on the iPods? (Score:5, Insightful)
turning iTMS-dollars into real money... (Score:1)
If he's able to spend the $10000 on iPods, he should be able to get most of that money back through ebay.
I certainly would
Billionth??!!? (Score:1)
Coldplay coincidence! (Score:2)
(http://robvincent.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 09, @01:55PM)
Apple stats (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Wednesday February 01 2006, @08:39AM)
How many people this represents
How many of these people are prize redemptions or giveaways?
How how many of these songs are validated on more than one computer and one iPod --- that would be really interesting to learn if people are still sharing
Audiophile? (Score:3, Insightful)
No audiophile worthy of the appellation would download an overly-compressed pop tune.
999,899,994 Ashlee Simpson & Cold Play... (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://soul-amp.com/)
Soul Amp (My Band) 6
Actually I am stoked about iTunes/Mp3 and iPods....as a indie musician, self producing with a home grown label, iTunes allows us to collect 65 cents per song. Direct to the the band...
Unfortunately without the big money for PR and payola (yes Apple probably takes payola too...despite claims otherwise, I think they call them marketing fees or "services") We are relegated to being just 13 songs in a sea of millions. Thus sales have been slow. But...that can change in a heartbeat as anyone who listens to music can see.
So...feel free to scope iTunes and search for Soul Amp...I need another guitar amplifier (VOX Ac-30 or Matchless) and a leslie for our 1958 Hammond M3 organ.
Also for people who refuse to pay for music until guilt finally takes hold after scamming every song ever recorded, we have tracks of tunes we are working on for our next disk on our website. Hep yer self...I say whay wait until a rash breaks out from the guilt of free downloading...by indie music from iTunes. The bands actually get the bulk of the money. 65 cents of 99 is pretty damn good. Most bands that get mp3 blogged are on iTunes.
http://soul-amp.com/ [soul-amp.com]
Audiophiles? (Score:2, Redundant)
(http://moreminimal.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday March 15 2003, @06:24PM)
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?Do they included refunded purchases in that total? (Score:2, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Monday August 21 2006, @11:53AM)
So instead I used the original album refund to buy a different album, Neutral Milk Hotel's "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea". This is a great album, and there were no such technical problems with the tracks, but, my god, is this album ever ruined by the inability of iTunes and the iPod to play the songs without gaps! Like no other. There are numerous seamless transitions between songs. At least they are suppose to be seamless. When listening to the iTMS versions you get heart-stopping gaps. Setting a 0 second crossfade slightly helps, but not much, and the iPod can't even do that. Unlike had I purchased a CD, I couldn't use the "Join CD Tracks" feature of iTunes to join my iTMS purchased tracks as a means to get around this issue. Again I complained and requested a refund. I requested that they give me my cash back, as opposed to crediting my account, because I wanted to buy the album on CD now, but they didn't do that and instead just credited my iTMS account for the album. I ended up then using the credit to buy an album that I knew didn't have seamless transitions between tracks, and I'm basically happy with that purchase, so all is well in that regard. I also then ordered a copy of the CD of "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" from an online store and happily used the "Join CD Tracks" feature of iTunes to join tracks 1-2, 4-5, 6-8 and 9-11, so those seamless transitions would be intact. Now I've got the album in a form that plays like it is suppose to in iTunes and on my iPod, something iTMS is completely incapable of.
So, Apple treated me fine, but I'm completely turned off to iTMS unless I can be sure the album does not have seamless transitions between tracks. Even then, I'm wary of the possibility that one or more of the tracks may be messed up, and that Apple wouldn't fix them, or at least that it is not possible for me to know if and when they fixed them.
Razorback (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.artemfrolov.com/)
Oh wait.
Our Counter Goes Up To 11 (Score:1)
(http://www.bitworksmusic.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 25, @04:01PM)
The interesting thing is that people don't realize how bad they have it. iTunes has opened the door for independent musicians to finally market their streams online, but iTunes suffers the problem of serving the mass market. In short, they suck, because the industry sucks. They have to offer DRM to appease the suits. They force people to install their crappy software for the privilege of being told what they want to listen to. They have started the revolution, so thanks for that, but we'll take it from here..
david
http://www.bitworksmusic.com/ [bitworksmusic.com]
odd tunes for odd times
Call me cynical but... (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.ultraviolence.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/)
Timing the Counter (Score:1)
And I'm proud to say.... (Score:1, Offtopic)
(http://www.dienaked.com/)
I do love the sample's at the iTunes store though. It makes it easier to decide what songs to acquire thru cheaper means.
Contribution of iTMS to iPod success seems small (Score:4, Insightful)
This seems to contradict the oft repeated claims that the iPod ties you to iTMS, or that iTMS is a major contributor to the iPod's success.
10 iPods? (Score:2)
In other news..... (Score:2)
"One BILLION DOWNLOADS"
Or not.
It figures. (Score:3)
(Last Journal: Monday February 04 2002, @03:31PM)
Figures.
Fucking Coldplay [everything...laynow.com].
Ironic Song Title (Score:1)
(http://www.cheesymovienight.com/)
Meanwhile on eBay... (Score:1)
(http://www.aspire.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday April 12 2006, @08:08AM)
Starting at $10,000.01
Jefferey Rowland on iTunes (Score:1)
"Only two of 'em are any good"
they should do better... (Score:2)
(http://www.developeradvantage.com/)
Notice the song milestones? (Score:2)
1,000,000,000 - Speed of Sound - Coldplay
500,000,000 - Mississippi Girl - Faith Hill
100,000,000 - Sumersault - Zero7
25,000,000 - Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! - Frank Sinatra
format not the point (Score:1)
Re:That... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:first post (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Thanks a Billion ... dammit. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:1, Redundant)
(http://www.bazzalisk.purplecloud.net/)
Re:Thanks a Billion ... dammit. (Score:3)
Re:first post (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Sunday October 07, @01:01AM)
Re:*cough*rigged*cough* (Score:1)
(Last Journal: Sunday October 07, @01:01AM)
Re:10 iPods??? (Score:2)
Re:I find it hard to believe that it was coldplay (Score:1)
(http://446.org.uk/simon)
Re:*cough*rigged*cough* (Score:1)
Re:Better use for the money (Score:2)
(http://nekobox.org/)
Why would they port iTunes to an operating system that can be considered competition for OS X?