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iTunes Anniversary Conference Call

According to MacMinute, Steve Jobs will be hosting a conference call on Wednesday, April 28 at 11:30 a.m. ET.

The call marks the one year anniversary of the iTunes Music Store:

Apple CEO Steve Jobs will update media and industry analysts on the iTunes Music Store one year after its launch
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the music store is a pioneering business model for digital music. i think Jobs is right to handle this one.
 
Just wait until WWDC...

No pod this time, no PowerPod, no AVPod, VideoPod, whateverPod... Just wait!

They will be happy to say they got around 95 M and they can say they reached the goal while they hold over 75% market... some more bla bla bla.. and we will be here in 1 week against each other because of the success of iTMS... :rolleyes:

Keep going up apple! ... We love & hate you! ... like most football teams... :p
 
Don't panic said:
so we'll finally know how many tunes they sold
any guess (including pepsi)?
I'll go first: 87 millions
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I am going to guess 72 million.

I am sure the number will announced on the 28th, and nothing else.
 
Wash!! said:
All the media say that itms is a failure cause they did not reach 100 million songs, anything to make Apple look like is going down in flames... :D
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It's no fun to read an article about a company have amazing success. It makes you feel like a failure. If you write about a company's shortcomings, regardless of how off-base you are, it makes the reader feel ok with their own shortcomings. It humanizes the company.
 
Buy Songs

Still a day and a half left, we should try to buy the songs now that we've been putting off. Hopefully, the numbers won't be much lower than 100 million.
 
wow that really snuck up on me, i knew there was going to be something coming up...

i can't believe its been a year already
 
True but

stoid said:
It's no fun to read an article about a company have amazing success. It makes you feel like a failure. If you write about a company's shortcomings, regardless of how off-base you are, it makes the reader feel ok with their own shortcomings. It humanizes the company.
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I'm the type the person that looks a the glass half full all the time no matter what the situation is, it just bothers me to see so many complaints, maybe is because I was born in a country where you have to make do the best with what you have and waist nothing...
 
Pre-conference call new hardware?

There could be a iPod 4th Gen announced on Tuesday, the day before the conference call. Check Apple Store website!
 
pkradd said:
There could be a iPod 4th Gen announced on Tuesday, the day before the conference call. Check Apple Store website!
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I doubt it. I don't see a new iPod until HP has sold a lot of rebranded ones. It's a contract they will want to fulfill in a way that does not anger HP.
 
iPod mini

the most interesting number (to me) will be the number of iPod minis sold (probably well above 200,000)
 
Price increases coming?

I wonder if Steve will be "smoothing the waters" for possible price increases. I suspect that Apple had a one to two year contract with the major music labels and with all of the recent talk about music download price increases I can only assume that the days of 99 cent downloads will probably end within the next year. Unfortunately, I think price increases are probably inevitable. I'd say that they will likely end up at something like $1.50 to $2.00 per song with a discount for an entire album. One certain way to kill this entire industry is for the music labels to price downloads at over $2 per song. I suspect that some in the music industry are already thinking that they'll be able to do that and in fact some reports suggest prices as high as $2.50.

As for the total Music Store download number, I'd guess 79 million.
 
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