iTunes Still Well Ahead of Amazon MP3 Store

[pdjudd]

I have to disagree with that! Remember, Amazon has a album downloader program for Windows XP/Vista and MacOS X 10.4 and later that automatically puts a playlist of downloaded music from the Amazon MP3 Store right into iTunes 7.6 to 8.0.x. That way, it's real easy to copy the downloaded music files right into your iPod.

And yet Amazon hasn't had any impact on iTunes thats worth talking about. The fact remains that for the vast majority or music buyers, iTunes is simpler and more convenient for them.

 

[Patcoola]

apple is always going to be on top with itunes, since everyone has an ipod and itunes is so easy to use and is a wide spread name.

 

[SactoGuy18]

And yet Amazon hasn't had any impact on iTunes thats worth talking about. The fact remains that for the vast majority or music buyers, iTunes is simpler and more convenient for them.

I think even Amazon understands that and don't be surprised that Amazon is working on add-ons to iTunes 8.0.x and Windows Media Player 11 that allow for even faster processing of downloaded files as it goes into the playlist of these two programs.

 

[mkrishnan]

I think even Amazon understands that and don't be surprised that Amazon is working on add-ons to iTunes 8.0.x and Windows Media Player 11 that allow for even faster processing of downloaded files as it goes into the playlist of these two programs.

I hope that's not all their spending their time on. The download / integration speed is hardly the issue. That's after the commitment to buy has been made, and so it just isn't that salient, as its relative lack of mention in this thread would suggest. I think it's the clunky web interface for finding songs, which has no interface into iTunes (or the iPhone -- since I got my iPhone a lot of my single song purchases happen on it instead of iTunes) that is much more of a problem for Amazon.