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iTunes Hits 100 Million

Did you notice addition to the tradional "end-of-press-release-about-the-company-line"?

Now it's "Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store.".

This started with the press release entitled "Apple iPod mini International Availability Set for July 24" and was not included with the previous "iTunes Music Store Begins Countdown to 100 Million Songs" release.

Talk about shift in strategy... 🙄
 
rendezvouscp said:
That's so cool. His own call from Steve. I wonder what they said?
–Chase
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"You'll start to cry about your new PowerBook, because next tuesday we will..." 😀
 
Trekkie said:
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.
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I've never had any Mac related trouble with my copy of it either.
I bought mine in Japan in 2002, though.
I'm guessing my copy of this CD differs from the one that sinisterdesign bought.
It's an "Enhanced CD" with specs for Mac and PC, though the Mac specs are for System 7.5 and later. When I mount the CD in OSX it only gives me a folder full of PC .exe and .ini files on the 2nd session. The first session still works as a normal audio CD in the Finder and iTunes.

There is a standard disclaimer in the packaging relating to the "Enhanced CD" content claiming no fault for "direct, indirect, or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use this CD."

Of course, this is on the inside of the booklet and is in extremely small type.
 
Trekkie said:
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.
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it's been a couple years. yeah, i'm not sure i've even seen that soundtrack listed on the 'corrupt' lists, but i have NO doubt that that's what trashed my systems. it was as fast as: 1)insert disc 2)spin up 3)watch computer have heart attack 4)poop bricks

the only thing i could figure out was that specific kernal panic was a bad combination of shoddy protection software & an early version of OSX. i was probably on 10.1 by then, but i've been running OSX since the developer release, so i don't remember exactly which version it was. nevertheless, it was the first crash i wasn't able to recover from. i'm not a total techie, but i can hold my own. but this trashed my hard drive, even the Mac tech shop wasn't able to recover all the data. what a mess. all i wanted to do was listen to music i had purchased! grrr...

great movie & soundtrack, though! 🙂
 
juniormaj said:
There is a standard disclaimer ...

Of course, this is on the inside of the booklet and is in extremely small type.
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exactly! which you normally read WHILE you're listening to the music.

i honestly haven't been brave enough to play that disc in any computer since then to test my "theory". hmmmmmmm, i just upgraded from a G4 to a G5 here at work. i think this is an EXCELLENT test platform! it's the exact machine i used at the dot.com i was at at the time and has both OS9 & OSX installed.

i'll try replicating the experiment tomorrow & let you guys know what happens! 😉
 
Something's fishy...

On http://www.apple.com/itunes/100million/, the list of winners is up. It lists the times the person purchased the song.

Interestingly, it lists the 100 millionth song being bought at "2004-07-12 20:22" (which would be *later* today-Monday the 12th-at 8:22pm)

Now, it doesn't say what time zone this time is [Eastern, Central (where the Winner is), or Pacific (where Apple is)].

But no matter the time zone, the time of 8:22pm does not fall into line with when the counter said the 100 millionth song was sold (which was about 1:30 AM EDT on Monday the 12th).

Am I crazy?

😕
 
Hlau said:
any reason why the vast majority of the winners are guys?
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I would assume it is because the iTunes music store is a particulary new technology service, and the majority of "techies" are men.

The service is not exactly "mainstream" yet, and you have to know a little bit about computers to use it (i.e. my grandma isn't downloading music off the internet).
 
😕

Wait a minute...Apple's rules stated that Free Singles of the Week are ineligible as entries...so how did someone win an iPod with the song that is the current Single of the Week?!
 
Whyren said:
😕

Wait a minute...Apple's rules stated that Free Singles of the Week are ineligible as entries...so how did someone win an iPod with the song that is the current Single of the Week?!
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When do they put up the Single of the Week? Maybe it wasn't the single of the week of July 7th, when that person won.
 
mac-er said:
When do they put up the Single of the Week? Maybe it wasn't the single of the week of July 7th, when that person won.
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Interestingly enough, the free Single of the Week WAS delayed a day that week, released on Wednesday instead of Tuesday (possibly because of the Independence Day Weekend)...so there's a small chance that the winner could've downloaded that song before it became the Free Single. What would the odds be of that! The only other possibility I see is that the winner may have bought that entire album and that song just happened to be the 97,700,000th song...either way, the coincidence is staggering...

Edit: and yes, "Combat Baby" by Metric was the Free Single for that week, becoming thus on July 7th.
 
Itunes 100

Well done to the guys who won all the iPods ect in thr itunes comp. However there is not a single non american in the list of winners. hardly a good ad for the itunes stores in europe.

cheers

mrmacmanuk
 
mrmacmanuk said:
Well done to the guys who won all the iPods ect in thr itunes comp. However there is not a single non american in the list of winners. hardly a good ad for the itunes stores in europe.

cheers

mrmacmanuk
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like it was said previously there are gaps in the list, probably because of european winners, which will - presumably - be added later.
 
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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According to the contest rules, free entries don't actually increase the counter. When the counter is one away from a winning entry, the next person to buy a song or send in a free email wins, but it says nothing about the free emails counting as total songs purchased at any other time.
 
Whyren said:
The only other possibility I see is that the winner may have bought that entire album and that song just happened to be the 97,700,000th song...either way, the coincidence is staggering...
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Looking closer at the list, that couldn't be either, since winners that downloaded entire albums have the album listed instead of the individual song (such as Three Dog Night: The Complete Hit Singles). Hmm...
 
Whyren said:
Looking closer at the list, that couldn't be either, since winners that downloaded entire albums have the album listed instead of the individual song (such as Three Dog Night: The Complete Hit Singles). Hmm...
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We have yet to determine what time zone these times and dates correspond to (the 100 million winner's listed time obviously isn't any US time zone), but the free single appeared a day later than normal, as previously noted. And if I recall did not appear until pm, not the morning like it usually is, so a lot of unknowns right now.

<>
EDIT: added a little for clarity's sake
 
autrefois said:
We have yet to determine what time zone these times and dates correspond to, but the free single appeared a day later and if I recall did not appear until pm, not the morning.
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Both true, which is why I'm not overly concerned. It's just an interesting coincidence.
 
autrefois said:
They must have paid someone at Apple legal to work on a Sunday night just to be ready to verify everything was in order and get the announcement out quickly.
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Not necessarily. It could easily have been an automated script - everything on the page is available to a script with access to the ITMS purchase/customer database.

Not much validation is necessary - the server probably tracks and counts purchases as a part of its normal audit trail. All the script has to do is wait for a confirmed purchase with invoice no. 100,000,000 to appear, which would be a short time after the charge goes through.
 
Trowaman said:
after analyzing Kevin's iPod, the back looks like all the others, no 4th gen iPods in my opinion.
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Since the prize was supposed to be a 40G iPod, I wouldn't expect it to be a new model.
 
madrobby said:
like it was said previously there are gaps in the list, probably because of european winners, which will - presumably - be added later.
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Yeah it's around 10-11pm in most European countries now. So it probably won't get updated until the following morning.
 
comparing www.apple.com/itunes/100million and http://ym.muda.org/kurt/apple/hist.php (which is in eastern time) - shows that the data on apple's page is 3 hours earlier, which makes it california time. not surprising. but the only thing wrong is, how could the 100 millionth song be bought at 20:22 which is 11:22 PM EDT?? (it's 4:57 PM EDT right now). also, according to apple's page, the Metric song was dl'ed 8:23 PM EDT and i remember downloading the free single in the afternoon. strange.

oh well.
 
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