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iTunes Hits 100 Million

sinisterdesign 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 $100 to get one hard drive repaired and lost the other one. i ended up losing email, contacts, Quicken data, etc. so, SunnComm & Macrovision can go ƒ#&$% themselves w/ their CP software, i'm buying from iTMS...
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If I were you I would enter a small claims court suit against them!!!
That's major B.S. 😡
 
sinisterdesign 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 $100 to get one hard drive repaired and lost the other one. i ended up losing email, contacts, Quicken data, etc. so, SunnComm & Macrovision can go ƒ#&$% themselves w/ their CP software, i'm buying from iTMS...
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That's sucks dude, you should see if you can get a class action lawsuit going. I'm sure others have had such an experience as you. Maybe recover some cash for the repair cost, pain/suffering, something...
they can afford it 😀
 
jbembe said:
I wonder what the bit rate of the pre-encoded DRMed songs are. And Apple should definitely license their Fairplay, if only for this purpose! I won't be purchasing any album with DRM if I can figure it out before I come across it!
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That's a good question. I'm one of those who does not really deal in "pirated" music so when I buy a CD, I do so expecting the best possible sound quality. I don't want some "cut down" version of the music on a CD.
 
Worried, for real

I'm starting to get worried. I would have thought for sure, that Apple would use the 100,000,000th song promo as a springboard for introducing a 4G iPod. What is going on? I'm starting to get depressed; the new iMac won't be out until September with current iteration running out way before its introduction. The Dual 2.5 G5 won't ship until later this month, same as with the new displays.

Time to get more Prozac.
 
Borg3of5 said:
I'm starting to get worried. I would have thought for sure, that Apple would use the 100,000,000th song promo as a springboard for introducing a 4G iPod. What is going on? I'm starting to get depressed; the new iMac won't be out until September with current iteration running out way before its introduction. The Dual 2.5 G5 won't ship until later this month, same as with the new displays.

Time to get more Prozac.
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Yeah, it takes a special breed to go into innovation withdrawals like that 😀 I see you are from Orlando (I am too) so let me ask you: Weren't you just a tad disappointed with the size and layout of the Apple Store at Millenia? I sure was. I realize the Millenia Mall is probably expensive retail space for this area but damn! The store is tiny.
 
This copy protection stuff is going a little too far. Soon they'll make us RENT the music and pay a penny everytime we play it.
 
Congratulations to Apple on the 100 millionth legal download. Tomorrow is Tuesday, so maybe Apple will have an announcement for us then.
 
obeygiant said:
This copy protection stuff is going a little too far. Soon they'll make us RENT the music and pay a penny everytime we play it.
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Are you being sarcastic? I thinking somebody is doing that already. Or was that Bill Gates' solution to spam? A penny per email.
 
rendezvouscp said:
Wow, that's horrible. I would go nuts if something like that happened to my Mac. What CD's were they?
–Chase
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my corrupt disc was the "O'Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack put out by Universal Music. it had no warning on it that it wasn't compatible w/ a Mac (not that you would have ever seen it if it did). i went home to play it on my computer & i had barely put the disc in when i got a kernal panic. i restarted and got the wonderful "?" disc icon. i spent the next couple hours trying to revive/find my hard drive to no avail. SO, when i went to work the next day, i thought, "y'know, i never DID get to listen to my new CD, let's pop that in...CRAP!!!"

at the time (a couple years ago), the Mac technician thought it was a coincidence (riiiight, 2 hard drives in 12 hours crap out right after i play the same CD). i searched high & low on the internet trying to find info. now it's more widely known that some of the junk they're throwing on CDs now is, at best annyoing and at worst malicious. here are a couple sites:

http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/bad/
http://www.fatchucks.com/corruptcds/

just as an ironic "screw you" to Universal, i went and downloaded all the tracks i wanted to listen to on my computer off Limewire. i could have saved myself a lot of money and a LOT of hassle if i had done that to begin with...thanks for negative reinforcement, UMG.

from news.com: Universal Music Group has said it hopes most of its releases will be protected against copying by mid-2002. Other record labels have been more circumspect, saying only that they are continuing to test the technologies.
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Borg3of5 said:
I'm starting to get worried. I would have thought for sure, that Apple would use the 100,000,000th song promo as a springboard for introducing a 4G iPod. What is going on? I'm starting to get depressed; the new iMac won't be out until September with current iteration running out way before its introduction. The Dual 2.5 G5 won't ship until later this month, same as with the new displays.

Time to get more Prozac.
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It's gonna be ok. Breathe in a few times, look at a field of sunflowers, whatever you need. 4th Gen iPods aren't coming until probably October, coinciding with the one year anniversary of Windows iTMS.
–Chase
 
Borg3of5 said:
I would have thought for sure, that Apple would use the 100,000,000th song promo as a springboard for introducing a 4G iPod.
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I'm anxious to see the 4G too--I want an iPod, and would choose a Mini now, but I want to know my options!

Current student promos ($200 off 15GB+ iPods when you buy a laptop) run through September--the rumored timeframe for new iPods. Nothing would surprise me though... maybe Apple will release iPods sooner to distract from the iMac delay 🙂
 
CNET headline

I will now predict the CNET headline:

iTunes misses key music milestone by months... does Apple have any way to survive?
 
nagromme said:
I will now predict the CNET headline:

iTunes misses key music milestone by months... does Apple have any way to survive?
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Lol, I actually thought that they came out with that article, but I hadn't read the predict.
–Chase
 
I wonder if the $200 iPod discount can be combined with a student developer purchase... If so - that would be fantastic.
 
JGowan said:
I know a lot of people probably are thinking that most of the last 5M songs were bought, but it was probably mostly the FREE way to enter.
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If you read the long form rules, 'tell a friend' doesn't increment the counter. Only purchases do that. The rules stated that a winner would be the person who "bought a song, *OR* used 'tell a friend' as soon as the counter has reached a multiple of 100,000 minus one. (So it was possible that they had someone 'tell a friend' immediately after song 99,999,999, to win, THEN have the actual 100,000,000th song sold, and not be a winner.)

But it does say that the counter only went up for songs sold.
 
Apple stock plummits as they reach milestone?

Why is it the Apple stock has gone down hill so much after reaching such a milestone. Apple does have the large amount due to delayed imacs, but they really have seen their peak, at least I think so. They were at their peak in June. I hate to be pesimistik, but will they recover to the point they were at before this time next year? I tend to think not. I own 25 shares and it was a real mistake by not selling after it reached that high. Well, if anyone knows anything about the expectations, please tell me, and should i sell soon?


Thank you

"Apple's to oranges, does not apply to Apple's to pc's"
-Mark Levantos
😕
 
According to this report from Yahoo/Reuters, Kevin Britten got a call from Steve Jobs himself congratulating him.

I wasn't too far off: I said in another thread that the lucky 100 millionth downloader should hear Steve's voice say "BOOM! You are our 100 millionth download!!" Maybe Mr. Britten actually did hear that—from Steve himself! 🙂
 
sinisterdesign said:
my corrupt disc was the "O'Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack put out by Universal Music. it had no warning on it that it wasn't compatible w/ a Mac (not that you would have ever seen it if it did). i went home to play it on my computer & i had barely put the disc in when i got a kernal panic. i restarted and got the wonderful "?" disc icon. i spent the next couple hours trying to revive/find my hard drive to no avail. SO, when i went to work the next day, i thought, "y'know, i never DID get to listen to my new CD, let's pop that in...CRAP!!!"
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Now that is really weird. When did you buy it? When it came out or later? I bought it when I saw the DVD and loved the music. It ripped with iTunes on my iMac FP 800Mhz just fine a few weeks ago.
 
corywoolf said:
Why is it the Apple stock has gone down hill so much after reaching such a milestone.
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The whole market is sliding down right at the moment. All vendors are affected industry wide. It'll be up to IBM and Apple and others that are announcing that should at least stop the downward spiral everyone seems to be in at the moment. I think the chip vendors started it with less than stellar earnings.
 
autrefois said:
According to this report from Yahoo/Reuters, Kevin Britten got a call from Steve Jobs himself congratulating him.

I wasn't too far off: I said in another thread that the lucky 100 millionth downloader should hear Steve's voice say "BOOM! You are our 100 millionth download!!" Maybe Mr. Britten actually did hear that—from Steve himself! 🙂
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That's so cool. His own call from Steve. I wonder what they said?
–Chase
 
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