Apple (maker of consumer gadgets) = quantity over quality.
Apple serves up 25 BEEELLIONTH iTunes download
Apple's iTunes Music Store has served its 25 billionth download, and is now shuttling tunes to Macs, PCs, and iDevices at a average rate of 15,000 per minute. "We are grateful to our users whose passion for music over the past 10 years has made iTunes the number one music retailer in the world," said Apple's internet software …
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Thursday 7th February 2013 16:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
yadayada
I been buying my music from itunes music store start. I had earlier stopped buying music when the CD price went over 100 finish old money. That is without inflation considered 16€.
But when i could get a song for 99c or a an album for 990c, I began buying again.
Interestingly I checked Spotify some weeks ago, and compared the music quality to my 256kbit musik from itunes store. I could hear the difference on my small computer speakers. The music from itunes where clearly much better.
I tried a few different songs, with the same result on all. Never that I would use Spotify. So you who whine about Apple quality doesn't have a clue. Ok it's not lossless, but with my equipment that's not needed, and I doubt you have that equipment either if you don't buy your audio cd's or audio dvd's.
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Wednesday 6th February 2013 18:45 GMT LinkOfHyrule
Was it really "Monkey Drums"???
Not that I am accusing the marketing people of this song of doing a sly deal with Apple or anything but can you imagine if the 25 BEEEELIONTH download was something like "A Lovers Audio Guide to Anal Beads and How to Use Them" - do you really think Apple would be all gun ho about announcing that as their milestone download?
No neither do I !!!!!
PS - it's a good informative guide that! I can highly recommend it!*
*Not really I made it up for the purposes of "humour"
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Wednesday 6th February 2013 19:20 GMT armyknife
titles are for toffs.
That's maybe 30% of approaching 99c for 25 billion downloads minus modest infrastructure and marketing, to sell other peoples content.
So in the high single digit billions, quite a cash cow and possibly more than the major 'evil' record labels' profits in that period; you know the people who at least sometimes help develop the content.
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Wednesday 6th February 2013 21:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: titles are for toffs.
I don't understand your tone exactly, but from someone who has just recently developed a hate for major labels, I would rephrase that as...
"...you know the people who USED TO ALWAYS help develop the content."
Notice the credit I give to them in PAST tense, and thanks to present digital distribution, I can happily give them no credit. If you are a musician and you happen to hate Apple, you still can't hate Apple more than the major labels. If anybody was keeping score, Apple would score at least 1 point with musicians.
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Wednesday 6th February 2013 20:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
Respect to Apple for changing the music industry....
...but I am finding that most of the music I buy is considerably cheaper from Amazon, and the Amazon Cloud Player client automatically adds MP3 downloads to your iTunes library anyway for syncing with your iDevices. I also prefer the Amazon cloud service over iTunes Match because you can rock up to any supported browser and just log in to play your stuff - plus native clients for iPhone, Android, etc - seems more open. Haven't discovered any downsides yet - anyone aware of any gotchas?
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Thursday 7th February 2013 00:41 GMT joejack
Margins
Apple takes a significant cut of music, books, movies, TV shows, in-app purchases, subscription services, etc. That's got to be a ridiculous revenue stream. And yet they jack up the prices of their iOS devices to the point where they get much higher margins than any competitor.
Amazon takes the same cuts for Kindle transactions (with a much lesser audience of course), but then uses that as a means to all but give the Kindles away.
Maybe once they're done suing everyone and run out of ideas, they can start competing on price.
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