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  • The Who's Townshend slams 'vampire' Apple

    11/01/2011 9:44:57 PM PDT · by FoxPro · 28 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | Nov 1 12:32 AM US/Eastern
    Pete Townshend, the legendary frontman behind British rock group The Who, attacked Apple's online iTunes service for bleeding artists "like a digital vampire". Townshend, speaking in Manchester in northwest England, called on the online giant to do more to help the artists from whom it was making so much money. "Is there really any good reason why, just because iTunes exists in the wild west Internet land of Facebook and Twitter, it can't provide some aspect of these services to the artists whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire... for its enormous commission?" he asked. Record labels and music...
  • APPLE'S iTUNES SALES COLLAPSE IN H1: SURVEY

    12/13/2006 4:47:24 AM PST · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 197 replies · 2,530+ views
    Reuters via Yahoo Finance ^ | 13 December 2006
    AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Sales at Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL - News) online music shop iTunes Music Store fell off a cliff in the first six months of 2006, according to a recent survey. Since January 2006 the number of monthly iTunes transactions has declined 58 percent, while the average size per purchase declined by 17 percent, leading to a 65-percent overall drop in monthly iTunes revenue, U.S. market research group Forrester said in a survey among North American consumers. "It is too soon to tell if this decline was seasonal or if buyers were reaching their saturation level for digital music," Forrester...