Posted on 09/08/2003 8:04:56 PM PDT by BraveMan
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. said on Monday it has sold more than 10 million songs on its iTunes Music Store since its launch four months ago and announced a new iPod music player that can store as many as 10,000 songs.
Apple, which has earned praise for its easy-to-use online music store, said the new iPod, which has a 40-gigabyte capacity, costs $499 and is now available.
Cupertino, California-based Apple also sells a 10-gigabyte model for $299 and a 20-gigabyte model for $399. They can all be used with both Apple Macintosh (news - web sites) and Windows computers.
Apple, whose music store is integrated into its popular iTunes music jukebox software, will offer a version of the music store that works on Windows computers later this year.
The music store lets customers sample 30 seconds of any song for free. Each song costs 99 cents to purchase. Customers can buy and download single tracks or entire albums.
Apple also announced on Monday faster versions of its iMac desktop computers, which have either 15- or 17-inch flat panel displays that float above the computer's lamp-base-shaped central processing unit.
The faster iMacs have PowerPC G4 microprocessors running at speeds of up to 1.25 gigahertz, or running at 1.25 billion cycles per second, and boast faster memory and graphics chips.
The new iMacs also have the faster USB 2.0 connection for linking devices such as digital cameras and iPods to the computer.
Shares of Apple were up 4 cents at $22.54 in midday trade on Nasdaq.
Keep trying Apple!
the new iPod, which has a 40-gigabyte capacity, costs $499 and is now available.Way overpriced with hard drives going for $0.80/GB. A Creative Nomad Zen is a better deal.
It's not about PC versus Apple, Einstein, it's about creating a marketplace, and satisfying suppliers while not alienating consumers.
Artists will benefit too.
What's your idea?
Try as the RIAA and MPAA might to crush the peer-to-peer services used for song and movie trading, they will never be able to do it. I've known about trading MP3s online since late 1996, waaaaaaaaaaaay before Napster. Instead of trying to make examples out of its customers, the RIAA should try to develop a low-cost mechanism for delivering music content to the fans/customers. The current mechanism, CDs that cost $11-$18 for 2 good songs and 15 total songs on a CD will not cut it. Sorry.
Hey, that's three of us. Now they need to hurry up and get the Windows version off the ground, since I don't think many people are going to switch just for that ;)
A quick testimonial:
I left my Ipod on my car roof after a run. I drove about a half a mile before it flew off the roof at about 40 MPH. I saw it rolling, chasing my car down the street in my rear view mirror and also saw the white plastic pieces of the front plate and control flying off. I (cursed myself first) stopped and stopped traffic while I collected the pieces-after putting it all together its been working AOK.
Similarly with movies that I download (here's the hard part, you can't listen to a movie on the radio to "preview" it), if a movie is good, I pay to go see it in the theater. You can't buy movie theater popcorn no matter what...from any store. For some reason it just doesn't taste quite the same. Movies this year that I have downloaded include XMen-2, Terminator 3, Pirates of the Caribbean, Matrix Reloaded and a few others. T3 and PotCaribbean surprised me and I went to see them twice in the theaters. I wouldn't have done this if I hadn't previewed them first. I'll also be purchasing the DVDs for viewing on my 53" HDTV. Likewise, a couple of movies that I downloaded were absolute bore-bombs. I didn't go see them in the theater, nor did I keep the DiVX file.
Entertainers (movies and musicians/singers) that continue to produce quality products will continue to make money -- no problem. Entertainers that produce absolute CRAP will get the same as payment -- CRAP. Too long have the RIAA and the MPAA been populated with no-talent-ass-clowns. MP3, DiVX and broadband are just filtering out the trash for us, the consumer.
Oh how true...
But, wait! There is another way to look at it. $0.99 each, lets see now, within round off error, I bet that is almost $10 million more than you made in the last few months. It sure comes close to that for me.
When you do something that generates $10 million in sales in a few months be sure to let us all know.
Funny you should mention that... they released the Windows version yesterday, along with two larger iPods...
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