The OP's referring to Steve's three legged stool slide at WWDC. The three legs being the Mac, the iPhone, the iPod/iTunes. No mention of
TV, though I'd guess it's lumped in with iTunes.
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Apple has Sold Over 5 Billion Songs on iTunes
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The OP's referring to Steve's three legged stool slide at WWDC. The three legs being the Mac, the iPhone, the iPod/iTunes. No mention of
TV, though I'd guess it's lumped in with iTunes.
There will always be someone who for whatever reason buys music and never downloads it. For example if your router dies just at the wrong moment. It seems that these purchases would not be counted in the 5bn.
Garth Brooks, AC/DC, ... Are you listening
This is great, both that Apple is #1 and so many have been sold.
There have been many holdouts such as Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers who initially refused digital music distribution with Apple's model (singles predominantly) but later gave in. Enriching themselves in the process.
However, for the hold outs
1. Garth Brooks
2. AC/DC
3. Aerosmith, Toys in the Attic, etc.
4. Kate Bush, Nik Kershaw available in UK but not in US
and of course the Beatles who should be coming soon (They're copying the bits on to scrolls of Papyrus using Hymn Chanting Monks).
For those artists, they're leaving a lot on the table.
People don't want plastic, they want singles and albums but on their hard drives, iPod or Computer. And many want to buy legally.
The 50,000 rentals or purchases a day on iTunes for movie rentals and purchases is a significant number but has a long way to go. The rental count is about 1200 with close to 400 HD. So it has a way to go. I have 2 Apple TV's and love them. When studios are smart and make their movies available immediately (See Semi-Pro, Fools Gold) they will rent/sell a significant number of them.
iTunes Rocks, Apple TV Rocks!
This is great, both that Apple is #1 and so many have been sold.
There have been many holdouts such as Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers who initially refused digital music distribution with Apple's model (singles predominantly) but later gave in. Enriching themselves in the process.
However, for the hold outs
1. Garth Brooks
2. AC/DC
3. Aerosmith, Toys in the Attic, etc.
4. Kate Bush, Nik Kershaw available in UK but not in US
and of course the Beatles who should be coming soon (They're copying the bits on to scrolls of Papyrus using Hymn Chanting Monks).
For those artists, they're leaving a lot on the table.
People don't want plastic, they want singles and albums but on their hard drives, iPod or Computer. And many want to buy legally.
The 50,000 rentals or purchases a day on iTunes for movie rentals and purchases is a significant number but has a long way to go. The rental count is about 1200 with close to 400 HD. So it has a way to go. I have 2 Apple TV's and love them. When studios are smart and make their movies available immediately (See Semi-Pro, Fools Gold) they will rent/sell a significant number of them.
iTunes Rocks, Apple TV Rocks!
the Zen is the WORST MP3 PLAYER EVER!So much for Zune....
I can't even ut songs on it!
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Good movie sales doesn't surprise me, i've been buying 3-4 a week. It really helped that the other studios signed on to selling movies instead of just renting them. The selection is still lacking though, and there are a lot of odd omissions such as only the 2nd movie of a series being available (examples: Beverly Hills Cop II, F/X II, and Revenge of the Nerds II).
I've also been buying TV shows, although only 1-2 complete seasons a week due to the price.
The one thing I haven't been buying a lot of is music. Only 3 songs total last week, one of which was an iTunes Plus upgrade. I don't like any of the mainstream music being released and the local college radio station hasn't been playing much of anything new lately.
My library of stuff bought on iTunes is already over 160GB, probably close to 200GB by now. Ended up having to un-sync movies from my AppleTV just to fit the TV Shows and music. I seem to recall my music alone is just over 16GB, meaning I've got close to 170GB of TV Shows and Movies almost all bought on iTunes this year.
I've also been buying TV shows, although only 1-2 complete seasons a week due to the price.
The one thing I haven't been buying a lot of is music. Only 3 songs total last week, one of which was an iTunes Plus upgrade. I don't like any of the mainstream music being released and the local college radio station hasn't been playing much of anything new lately.
My library of stuff bought on iTunes is already over 160GB, probably close to 200GB by now. Ended up having to un-sync movies from my AppleTV just to fit the TV Shows and music. I seem to recall my music alone is just over 16GB, meaning I've got close to 170GB of TV Shows and Movies almost all bought on iTunes this year.
Not that I want to play trump-your-credentials, but I'm a published writer and I disagree with your analysis. In the context of a press release about an Internet-based music store, the addition of "...and downloaded" is meaningless in the way you describe. Of course, those songs were downloaded. That's the only way you can get iTunes music. You can't walk into a brick-and-mortar iTunes store so the addition of "downloaded" is unnecessary, unless it means something other than what you assume. Therefore, I submit that Apple is implying a differentiation between bought and downloaded. The only way that makes sense is if not all songs were bought.
And before anyone tries to deride this logic, someone later on in this thread defends the exact opposite--that Apple words it that way because all songs were bought but not necessarily downloaded (i.e., some customers failed to complete the download process.)
Also bear in mind that even the free downloads show up in iTunes as a $0 purchase so both of our interpretations could be technically correct.
So does mine.
Except it was a little more than just two months ago:
Apple Press Release from February 26, 2008: iTunes Now Number Two Music Retailer in the US
So, that would be: June 19 - February 26 = 113 days
1,000,000,000 ÷ 113 days = 8,849,557 songs / day on average