Prediction: iTunes Will Set New Download Record on July 11, 2008

[EsquireMac]

As of June, 2007, iTunes was serving up 1 million dowloads per day, and had an active user base of 500 million, according to Appleinsider.

I'd be shocked if Apple didn't destroy Mozilla's record of 8 million downloads on July 11, 2008 with iTunes 7.7.

 

[Diaresi]

Mozilla's "record" was only really a publicity stunt - there wasn't a record of its type until it!

I'm pretty certain iTunes will have beaten it many times, probably on Christmas Day, when they stopped shipping CDs with iTunes on. The thing is to get the record they need to go through the hassle of getting Guinness World Records to check all the server logs etc. which I doubt Apple can be bothered to do.

 

[clevin]

I'd be shocked if Apple didn't destroy Mozilla's record of 8 million downloads on July 11, 2008 with iTunes 7.7.

lol, you don't even know what the record is, I guess.

it needs to be a willingly download of the whole package from the official website.

Updater doesn't count, otherwise, nobody can beat microsoft's tuesday patches in any situation

To talk about userbase, iPod has 170million uses world wide (or less), Firefox has 230Million users. How exactly do you think iTunes' update server will serve more than firefox's?

now, read Asa's comment of the record

# "This was just a stunt."

First, are you familiar with the Guinness Book of World Records at all? Even casually aware of what it is? It's a collection of interesting, entertaining, and often completely wacky accomplishments. Mozilla, with great interest from its community and with obvious interest from many millions of its users, thought this would be an interesting, entertaining, and even somewhat wacky, but most of all fun challenge and so we did it.
# "Windows Update on 'patch Tuesday' would easily beat this record."

Actually, probably not. The record attempt was clearly defined by Mozilla and Guinness beforehand and intentionally made to not cover automatic software updates. Mozilla could easily serve out many times more automatic updates in a 24 hour period, but that's not something that gets our community and our users engaged and excited so that's not what this was about. This was about millions of people, from all over the world, coming together and taking a very specific collective action.

 

[iPhelim]

To talk about userbase, iPod has 170million uses world wide (or less), Firefox has 230Million users. How exactly do you think iTunes' update server will serve more than firefox's?

People have more than one computer and not only people with an iPod download iTunes.

 

[Scooterman1]

How can they set a record on July 11, if it comes out before?

 

[clevin]

People have more than one computer and not only people with an iPod download iTunes.

thats probably right, I did brief search and didn't get any numbers for iTunes install base. so I have to fall back on iPods, 150m (170m is wrong, sorry of my previous mistaken statement) is total sales from 2001 to Mar. 2008, so probably counted many dead ones, retired ones too.

If you have any better number, please post it.

 

[EsquireMac]

thats probably right, I did brief search and didn't get any numbers for iTunes install base. so I have to fall back on iPods, 150m (170m is wrong, sorry of my previous mistaken statement) is total sales from 2001 to Mar. 2008, so probably counted many dead ones, retired ones too.

If you have any better number, please post it.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...g_up_1_million_copies_of_itunes_each_day.html

That article quotes figures released at Macworld 2007: 500 million active user base for iTunes, 1 million downloads per day.

 

[DeaconGraves]

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...g_up_1_million_copies_of_itunes_each_day.html

That article quotes figures released at Macworld 2007: 500 million active user base for iTunes, 1 million downloads per day.

It'd be interesting to see what Apple considered a download (did they count updates?)

Also, this isn't an essential download (read: must download it the minute it comes out as opposed to whenever I have software update check) unless you have an iPhone/iPod touch. I don't have the numbers, but its definitely a small percentage of the entire iTunes base.

 

[EsquireMac]

it needs to be a willingly download of the whole package from the official website.

Updater doesn't count, otherwise, nobody can beat microsoft's tuesday patches in any situation

By the way, thanks, Clevin, for pointing that out. I wondered whether that was the case...