iTunes Anniversary Conference Call

[Trowaman]

I am not seeing any updates today on iTMS. Could this mean version 5, 4.5, or 4.3 will hit the world on Wed?

 

[macnews]

Just the other day a bunch of Apple execs cashed in stock options (can't blame them) many in the 10-20 million range. Perhaps Steve gave them a kick in the *ss and told them to sell shares, go home and buy iTMS songs. If they just spent a quarter of their value, that should help crack the 100 mill level.

I also hope the labels get their acts together and decide not to raise prices. My only question would be is this an across the board increase? In other words, will Walmart and all the other online services raise their prices as well? Interesting because Walmart normally can demand lower prices due to volume sold, but how could they do that with online downloads? There is no way Walmart has sold more songs than iTMS, or will even come close. It will also be interesting to see if there is a price increase what Sony will charge. Would be bad, possibly illegal, if they charge Apple $1.50 for what they sell at $0.99.

 

[Foocha]

Just the other day a bunch of Apple execs cashed in stock options (can't blame them) many in the 10-20 million range.

This might indicate that the conference call will be delivering bad news - or then maybe I'm just too cynical

 

[rspress]

I'm not trying to be a smartass, but....

Where are all of you even getting ogg?

Why would the Apple want Microsoft on the iPod?

rspress make own ogg. Me use plug-in for Quicktime.

Actually with the ogg plug-in and and the hack from macaddict itunes can now handle ogg files. Apple included icons for ogg and wma in iTunes so there must have been some thought on using them. Since ogg is open source it would cost nothing for Apple to support this format but it provides no DRMS. As far as WMA it is a windows world out there and at some point someone will come out with an MP3 player that will give Apple a run for the money. When that happens the one that supports more formats will win.

I think the WMA codec sucks big time and I never use it....even on my windows box but plenty of windows users do and other online music stores do as well. Right now Apple has the luxury of not using it but that will change some day.

 

[rspress]

>J-Squire Try using the shopping cart. You can add a song to your shopping >cart as you browse, but this does not confirm the purchase. You can then >go research it or whatever you plan on doing, and return to buy it.

True the shopping cart is a work around but adding bookmark support would be better and allow sharing of links to songs with other users.

> Almost all tracks are .99c. HOWEVER, some tracks that exceed a certain >length of time (I think 7:00) are priced higher, but I think that is a valid >reason.

I also have no problem with longer songs being priced more than .99 cents. However some longer songs are not even purchasable unless you but the who CD. Most of the above .99 cent songs are those that are recent releases by "popular" performers.


>I am hopefull for 85-90m on April 28th.
>Does anyone know if this call will be streamed over quicktime on the >Apple Site?
>Also, my prediction for announcements is that this might be a good time >for iTunes 5? Not a big enough event for a major product, but enough >attention to announce new software

I too would like to know if this event will be streamed...I have found nothing that says it will be, but I sure would like to hear it!

 

[TylerL]

For the record, assuming a global average of 4 minutes per song, the iTMS has 3.805 years of music available for download.

 

[stoid]

For the record, assuming a global average of 4 minutes per song, the iTMS has 3.805 years of music available for download.

WOW! I have about 3.805 days of aural enjoyment in my iTunes library

 

[rspress]

WOW! I have about 3.805 days of aural enjoyment in my iTunes library

I have fifteen days of music. Of course I have only 10 minutes of good songs ;-)

 

[Wonder Boy]

other stuff is welcomed, but ill be disapointed if there isnt a ipod software update. 2.2 or something.

 

[MCCFR]

Sad as it may seem, I have an Excel spreadsheet with all of the milestone announcement data for iTMS loaded, and using two different models for predicting where we'd be on Wednesday returned a number between 70.0 and 70.1m excluding Pepsi promo.

<-snip->

Ah, it feels good to be a prophet.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

other stuff is welcomed, but ill be disapointed if there isnt a ipod software update. 2.2 or something.

I don't know if any of you have checked the other threads, but iTunes 4.5, QuickTime 6.5.1, and new iPod software were released.