MacRumors said:Apple Announces 25 Billion Songs Sold in iTunes Music Store
@charlieegan3:Less easy for people to pirate apps I guess.25 Billion. Wow. The App Store is still climbing faster though.
Songs, NOT apps.
MacRumors said:Apple Announces 25 Billion Songs Sold in iTunes Music Store
@charlieegan3:Less easy for people to pirate apps I guess.25 Billion. Wow. The App Store is still climbing faster though.
I've only bought a handful of songs / albums from iTunes. I really like buying from Amazon's digital store because:
-MP3 (no DRM)
-Frequent sales.
The last few albums I bought were $5.99, for good, modern stuff. Nice.
I've only bought a handful of songs / albums from iTunes. I really like buying from Amazon's digital store because:
-MP3 (no DRM)
-Frequent sales.
The last few albums I bought were $5.99, for good, modern stuff. Nice.
I was curious when their last milestone was, to see the rate of purchases on the iTunes store...a Google search revealed they announced 20 billion back in September.
That means it took them 11 years to sell the first 20 billion. And 5 months to sell a quarter again of that.
I would have thought it was slowing with Spotify and other services on the rise. But the above figures mean music purchases on iTunes are accelerating.
I was curious when their last milestone was, to see the rate of purchases on the iTunes store...a Google search revealed they announced 20 billion back in September.
That means it took them 11 years to sell the first 20 billion. And 5 months to sell a quarter again of that.
I would have thought it was slowing with Spotify and other services on the rise. But the above figures mean music purchases on iTunes are accelerating.
I've only bought a handful of songs / albums from iTunes. I really like buying from Amazon's digital store because:
-MP3 (no DRM)
-Frequent sales.
The last few albums I bought were $5.99, for good, modern stuff. Nice.
phillip lüpke is lucky. I wonder what other good things have happened to him lately?
Buying from Amazon because of DRM free mp3 format is stupid, when you can buy higher quality DRM free AAC format from the iTunes store.
And at least in the UK, anyone who is a bit organised has a permanent iTunes sale, because you can always find some store selling £25 iTunes gift cards for £20. That's 20 percent off everything.
One morning an Apple engineer was checking on iTunes stats. He noticed the songs downloaded was rapidly approaching 25 Billion. He gave his boss a call. Hey Eddy he said. We are approaching 25 billion songs downloaded. Wow! Eddy remarked. He was pretty excited and happy. He was just promoted and got a pay raise. "I'll let Tim and Phil know" Eddy said as he hung up the phone.
Tim and Phil were at the Apple cafeteria...
I was curious when their last milestone was, to see the rate of purchases on the iTunes store...a Google search revealed they announced 20 billion back in September.
That means it took them 11 years to sell the first 20 billion. And 5 months to sell a quarter again of that.
I would have thought it was slowing with Spotify and other services on the rise. But the above figures mean music purchases on iTunes are accelerating.
I still like to own music and have it to keep permanently--so I look for their $5 and under specials and do buy those that I want.
I'm not convinced that you have enough data points to make those sorts of conclusions. Both of the facts you cite could be true, and it could still be true that sales are not accelerating. Indeed, over relevant time periods, they could be decelerating, flat, or even falling.
I don't know the reality, but data from 5 months ago and now is too little data to identify any trends whatsoever.
I like having the Amazon option, but Apple's choice of MP4 (AAC) format gives better quality and also has NO DRM. At the dawn of the iTunes Store the music labels required DRM (Fairplay) and iTunes video still has it. But Apple fought for DRM-free music and ultimately we got it.
These files mostly adhere to the AAC standard and are playable on many non-Apple products but they do include custom iTunes information such as album artwork and a purchase receipt, so as to identify the customer in case the file is leaked out onto peer-to-peer networks.
The sound quality of iTunes MP3s exceeds all other sources of audio.
Screw Apple. Screw the iStore.
I will not buy mediocre sounding files that are infested with unwelcome personally identifying information. I see no reason to use anything but FLAC at this point.