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iTunes Hits 100 Million
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I am so glad its over. Now maybe ... a planned leak about some new hardware? Something with an "i" in it. A picture/specs accidential sort-of hint??
i got screwed!
i was downloading a few songs off and album and the server started chugging away. I pretty soon it started downloading the 4th song i clicked twice and skipping the 3rd song!! Now i have two copies of it and no 3rd song! there was an error in the middle of there somewhere.
i tried checking for purchased music ...no luck!
i was downloading a few songs off and album and the server started chugging away. I pretty soon it started downloading the 4th song i clicked twice and skipping the 3rd song!! Now i have two copies of it and no 3rd song! there was an error in the middle of there somewhere.
i tried checking for purchased music ...no luck!
backspinner said:
Yoiks ... This one may come back to bite Apple in the a$$.
I'm gonna give this a couple of weeks and see what transpires.
Savage Henry said:Yoiks ... This one may come back to bite Apple in the a$$.
I'm gonna give this a couple of weeks and see what transpires.
it seems to be going back to how they were before the promotion. I'm sure there will be a lull anyway, besides, the last few hours are usually the low point anyway for downloads.
did we ever figure out why these ipods are going to be "special"?
i hope its something more than its engraved with the number you downloaded or something like that
i may have spoke to soon
http://www.apple.com/itunes/100million/
look at the back of the ipod in the picture
i hope its something more than its engraved with the number you downloaded or something like that
i may have spoke to soon
http://www.apple.com/itunes/100million/
look at the back of the ipod in the picture
100,000,000 baby. oh yeah, definitely a milestone. There must of been a surge in downloads, because I, like others, started buying songs at 99,995,000 and it hit 100,000,000 before my song finished downloaded.
That prize was sweet. Engraved 40 GB ipod, 17" PB, but what I would of wanted is the 10,000 iTunes gift certificate.
That prize was sweet. Engraved 40 GB ipod, 17" PB, but what I would of wanted is the 10,000 iTunes gift certificate.
Speaking of more songs and iPods sold
Have you checked this out?
http://news.com.com/iPod+undermines...ed+CDs/2100-1027_3-5263842.html?tag=nefd.lede
This would be an excellent way to quash any Micro***** inroads into music.
Have you checked this out?
http://news.com.com/iPod+undermines...ed+CDs/2100-1027_3-5263842.html?tag=nefd.lede
This would be an excellent way to quash any Micro***** inroads into music.
As a collector's item that 100.000.000 ipod should be worth a nice premium over the 'normal' ones even though the only difference is the engraving. If I had won it (not that I was trying . . . no store in Canada) I think I would be having second thoughts about actually using it. Might just be tempted to buy a 'normal' one for the everyday use and keep the other one as a none-finger printed covered, unscratched, and undropped trophy.
If the winner is out there in the forums (by any chance) congratulations, you now own a (rather significant) piece of apple history.
If the winner is out there in the forums (by any chance) congratulations, you now own a (rather significant) piece of apple history.
Well, I suppose it's a good thing I didn't win. I didn't know there was a danger they would reveal my dark musical secrets to the world.
dvdh said:
That's so true. I hope he saves it and doesn't use it. It would be horrible if something happened and he sent it in to Apple for repair...
Chase
Sorry, the tell-a-friend "free" entries were not free purchases and did not count towards the 100 million songs.JGowan said:
They were free entries into the contest, that's all, nothing more. That's not the same thing as inflating the count of sold songs. I don't understand why people keep thinking this. Odd.
cr2sh said:
Is it? My counter is still counting, they have had over another 110,000 songs sold since the million mark. I'm seeing no slowdown either in the rate the songs are being bought.
macridah said:
I'd given some thought to that, and -- not to shoot you down -- but I don't know what I'd do with 10,000 songs. I probably don't have more than 100 that I could say I know and like, and probably not more than 1,000 or so that I'm even familiar with.
I would have had to inquire as to whether I can pass off some of the songs to other people. I certainly would never want a 10,000 song library.
But, then again, I was never that much into music anyhow.
Congrats to the winner, though. It would have been cool to win a 17" PB.
I only bought Velvet Underground's album, so 8? songs or so.
Really I didn't have anything I wanted to buy. I'm usually pretty on top of the new music Tuesdays most of the time.
Though my kids got my wife a $50 cert for her birthday so she has a lot to buy soon.
Really I didn't have anything I wanted to buy. I'm usually pretty on top of the new music Tuesdays most of the time.
Though my kids got my wife a $50 cert for her birthday so she has a lot to buy soon.
I thought the graphs on my site were worth saving:
http://www.itunesdaily.com/countdown/graphs.html
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Armsreach said:
Yes indeed - iMixes are playlists "for the rest of us". Your point is well taken.
Would be cool if there were more iTMS promos/contests/sweepstakes every so often as this one was wildly successful and it does generate a lot of interest.
mainemike said:
But it would be fun to have a 'normal person' iMix of the day/week picked out by the iTMS staff because of interesting music or an interesting reason - like the local Chicago bands that you play etc. And might encourage people to make more unusual iMixes
choogheem said:
good to hear. i've still got a bad taste in my mouth about copy-protected CDs after a CD that i purchased fragged not one, but TWO hard drives (home computer & work computer). i couldn't start up, Norton & Disk Warrior didn't even see the hard drive, nothing. i took them to a Mac repair shop swearing that both computers died right after trying to play the same CD, but the tech guy thought i was nuts. it wasn't until months later that i read that Universal had installed copy protection software on certain CDs and that software wasn't "Mac-compatible".
yeah, that "copy protection" for a disc i purchased for myself cost me $100 to get one hard drive repaired and lost the other one. i ended up losing email, contacts, Quicken data, etc. so, SunnComm & Macrovision can go #&$% themselves w/ their CP software, i'm buying from iTMS...
sinisterdesign said:
Wow, that's horrible. I would go nuts if something like that happened to my Mac. What CD's were they?
Chase
applekid said:I bet the winner only bought one song.
I on the other hand bought 50 songs. The RHCP Greatest Hit's Album for myself, 3 Bond CD for my sister, plus 5 other songs for her. If I win, I'll owe her an iPod.
LOL. Undoubtedly. Probably a Windows users to boot, who has no interest in a powerbook........(yes, they're out there!)