Apple’s iTunes Store just had its 10 billionth song downloaded Wednesday. Things Happen That Way by Johnny Cash was downloaded by Louie Sulcer of Georgia, USA, who will receive a $10,000 iTunes gift certificate for downloading the 10,000,000,000th song.
Archive for category iTunes Store
One of the things I like about the iTunes Store is the ability to listen to a 30-second preview of any song. Very useful when trying to decide whether to purchase an entire album or just purchase individual songs.
The problem was when I wanted to listen to the preview of all the songs in [...]
Apple unveils iTunes Preview
Nov 16
Apple’s new iTunes Preview feature lets any link to a song, album or artist from the iTunes Store be viewed without having to open the iTunes application. This is especially useful for users who can not install or do not want to install iTunes on their computer.
Prior to iTunes Preview going live, clicking on an [...]
Last January 6, 2009, Apple held its Macworld San Francisco keynote with Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, taking the stage.
During Apple’s last Macworld keynote, the company introduced new versions of their multimedia suite, iLife, and office suite, iWork. Apple also released the new 17-inch MacBook Pro, which completes the lineup of [...]
On Friday, Apple advertised that iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded a total of 500 million apps.
The half a billion mark comes 42 days after Apple announced its 300 millionth download on December 5.
That means users have been downloading apps at an average rate of around 4.7 million per day.
Apple also announced [...]
Jay-Z, or Shawn Carter in real life, is quoted as saying “As movies are not sold scene by scene, this collection will not be sold as individual singles.” He’s banned his latest album American Gangster from being sold on iTunes as individual tracks. According to Jay-Z, his “imaginary soundtrack” is “a work of art” and [...]
The Washington Post has an article on the rising popularity of lectures on podcasts particularly those found in iTunes U. iTunes U is a collaboration between Apple and various colleges and universities in the United States like Stanford, MIT, Yale and UC Berkley.
According to Jeffrey Selingo, materials from the different universities and colleges have been [...]
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report are now available in the iTunes Music Store for download. Each episode cost $1.99, however, Apple has introduced a new service called Multi-Pass. Multi-Pass cost $9.99 and when purchased, this will download the most recent episode and the next 15 episodes as soon [...]
1,000,000,000th download!
Feb 23
Congratulations go to the lucky one-billionth iTMS downloader. He or she wins a 20″ iMac, 10 60GB iPods, and $10,000 worth of iTMS downloads (any media).
The one-billionth song downloaded was Coldplay’s Speed of Sound. The winner is Alex Ostrovsky of Michigan.
Christopher Breen sums it up with one word: Wow.
Bye-bye, shuffle?; iPod crazy on eBay; free videos; no videos (in Japan); Aussies have it bad
Dec 18
1GB iPod shuffles are hard to come by. As a matter of fact, on Apple Stores, they have the message, “iPod shuffle 1GB.Currently Unavailable. Sold out for holiday. Expected availability mid-January.” There are now speculations that a new iPod will be released to replace the shuffle or perhaps the shuffle will be updated. People at [...]
Lecture Podcasts
Nov 29
I just recently found out that there are already quite a few American universities that offer their lectures and speeches as podcast or at the very least, in downloadable digital music formats. Though I’ve been listening to Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast, it was only last night that I saw a whole lot more podcasts [...]
A writer for Japan Today calls the efforts of Sony and other companies as “lame ass” in their attempts to get back what the iPod and iTMS has taken from them in a matter of a few months. I was surprised that a Japanese would actually use this kind of term. But it turns out [...]
What’s this? More Mac users? That’s according to CNN/Money and Sam Gustin of the New York Post. According to CNN/Money, more people are jumping over the Mac side of the fence because of the popularity of the iPod. In the meantime, Sam Gustin predicts that Mac’s marketshare could double within a decade. I would like [...]
1 million in 20 days
Nov 1
Apple has done it again. It’s been only twenty days since the iTunes Music Store launched its video library and there already has been 1 million downloads. According to Motley Fool, Apple has now the right to to be smug since there indeed is a market for legal downloads. at $1.99 per download, people have [...]
