Apple launches iTunes

Going in to the mucis business

[lazerzubb]

[apple.com...]

Rumours had it that they would buy vivendi, but now it doesn't look like it.

I think the 99c per song will be the big hit here, it will be very interesting to see how it ends up.

They also released a new version of Ipod
[apple.com...]

[Marketing Guy]

Seems it's Apple only and just in the US for the time being.

Plans are for a Windows version by the end of the year.

Good move by apple - I bet Mr Gates is kicking himself! ;)

Scott

[jimbo_mac]

Fortune has a exclusive on it.
more here [fortune.com]

Jobs is trying to get AOL on board.... around 26 million subscribers = $$$$

[Macguru]

They did pretty well already.

ITunes Music Store Sells Over One M Songs In First Week [biz.yahoo.com].

Apple Computer Inc.'s online iTunes Music Store sold more than one million songs during its first week in operation, exceeding the company's expectations.

[Macguru]

Now 2 million songs [biz.yahoo.com]...

Not bad for a 2 weeks old business...

[atadams]

51 of those songs are mine (3 albums and 2 individual songs). So far I've been pretty pleased with the service. It seems they have a pretty good business model.

[EliteWeb]

iTunes 4 can also be used to swap files over the Internet now too :D

[pleeker]

I think the iTunes music store is utter genius. But I'm having a problem at work. Seems I'm taking too many iBreaks* and not getting as much done as I did before.

* iBreak - stopping your regular work to spend time browsing through the iTunes Music Store

Matt

[Brad]

I just tried out this iTunes store. I've never downloaded music in my life, I had no idea how it works, but in minutes I was downloading my first song.

lazerzubb you have a very good point: buying by the song for only .99 cents has a very strong appeal to me.

The interface is very well thought out. I'm sold on it. I might even buy myself an ipod at Christmas. ;)

[pleeker]

The interface is very well thought out. I'm sold on it. I might even buy myself an ipod at Christmas.

Ditto on that, Brad. The store actually has me thinking it makes sense to digitize my entire music collection and store it on an iPod, my G4, etc. Never would've considered buying an iPod before, but I'm giving it thought now.

[Macguru]

He he! It wasn't long before users found a way around to share the files. ;)

Apple's ITunes Clampdown [forbes.com] .