Apple Computer remains on track to deliver a Windows version of its ITunes Music Store by the end of the year, a senior executive confirmed last week.
Apple's director of marketing consumer applications Peter Lowe confirmed the plans in an interview with a top digital-media analyst.
Lowe said: "There is a broad set of stuff that needs to be supported. We are working away at it and are on track to deliver it by the end of the year. Developing Windows software can be a challenge at the best of times, as there are so many configurations of Windows PCs and connectivity peripherals."
A former nuclear safety engineer, Lowe discussed the success of the service: "It has been more successful than we hoped. Some of our music partners hoped for a million sales in the first month. We sold over three million tracks in the first month."
Lowe added that demand for the new IPod has been extremely strong--the company sold 26,000 units through its U.S. retail stores in the first week of release.
News source: PC World
Apple's director of marketing consumer applications Peter Lowe confirmed the plans in an interview with a top digital-media analyst.
Lowe said: "There is a broad set of stuff that needs to be supported. We are working away at it and are on track to deliver it by the end of the year. Developing Windows software can be a challenge at the best of times, as there are so many configurations of Windows PCs and connectivity peripherals."
A former nuclear safety engineer, Lowe discussed the success of the service: "It has been more successful than we hoped. Some of our music partners hoped for a million sales in the first month. We sold over three million tracks in the first month."
Lowe added that demand for the new IPod has been extremely strong--the company sold 26,000 units through its U.S. retail stores in the first week of release.
News source: PC World
Clawing his way in
Using Wolverine's razor-sharp claws to hack and slash through enemies consumes much of the game play, but strategy and stealth are also required to infiltrate high-security locations.
The title is divided into six "acts," each of which includes three or four levels of game play. Visually, the game is played from a cinematic "over the shoulder" third-person perspective. Wolverine travels to different parts of the world to fight enemies, solve puzzles, and collect key power-ups and other items.
That said, I'm more excited about the forthcoming competing service from MSN Music. Both the LATimes and MSNBC have reported that MSN has been showing off their music download service to a variety of music executives.
If this is true, when Microsoft rolls out this service...I think we can pretty much say that this isn't Microsoft copying Apple, as it takes longer than 7 weeks (since Apple launched their iTunes music store) to develop a service like this and show it off to music executives. Microsoft has been working on this for awhile, but Apple beat them to the starting gate.
But I agree it won't be a copy because WMP is already a mess and won't easily incorporat the service, there isn't an end-to-end solution like Apple has with the iPod, it is going to be tied to MSN, and it's going to have expiry dates and other more restrictive DRM probably... not to mention possibilities like a subscription vs. purchasing, etc...
We don't yet know the specifics of the MSN music store, but I hope it isn't a rehash of the pressplay/musicnet subscription platforms.
Those new Media2Go devices that Microsoft is promoting are an interesting end user device to consumer content from the MSN music store. Looks to me like a decent end-to-end solution to me. Microsoft will have a platform for partners to build sweet devices with. Apple's is, well, Apple's. Repeating their age-old mistakes of the past while Microsoft repeats their success hopefully.
Liquid Audio beat them ALL. YEARS ago.
Beat them all at what exactly? ;-)
M$'s success? You mean how they copy/steal technology from everyone? Or how they screwed the computer companies for years by pressuring them to use only windows in the computers? I don't see Apple making many mistakes. What they HAVE done is the exact opposite of what M$ has done. Apple actually comes out with new stuff while M$ regurgitates everyone else's stuff. So you have Apple...successful because of legal business practices, or you have M$, successful because of illegal practices. Which, on an odd coincidence, is a similar scenario to Apple music store vs kazaa, et al. In the end, the legal business practices will ALWAYS come out on top.
I'll give you ten bucks if you can prove that nothing in Visual Studio .NET and Office 2003 is innovated by Microsoft.
Oh, and you mean like how Apple stole this idea from Liquid Audio? Oh, but you'll probably say "Apple improved on it." Well, Microsoft improves on everything, too. What's your point?
And you think Apple doesn't do the same thing?
Have you actually read the suit and determined which practices, exactly, were illegal? You might find that almost nothing that got Microsoft where it is now was illegal.
You said in another thread that Windows XP wasn't 64-bit. With statements like that, I don't expect you to be able to back up any of your statements like the above at all.
They're already successful and it'll be an even bigger success when it rolls around for windows.
and besides word is starting to spread (true or not) that the quality of the AAC songs sucks. that might deter some people, it might not only time will tell, but assuming apple maintained 3 million songs a month for a year, that's 36 million dollars in revenue and let's say being very nice, 18 million in profit. 18 million dollars??? that's a joke, yes profit is profit but it's going to take more than 18 million dollars to save Apple. now if they port it to windows and make money and start making like 70 million in PROFIT that's another story but i doubt it will be that successful only because the free services aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
The thrill wore off, and I realized how inferior Apple really is. Guess it just takes longer for some people. Chalk it up to a learning experience, but Macs really do seem to be computers for people too stupid to use a PC. Talk about boring hunks of pretty plastic. But I guess they are great if you just *have* to have a system that matches your carpet, or you want a system that looks like a billboard attached to a childs bicycle helmet, or a little cube chock full of obsolescence that looks more like it belongs in a kitchen cupboard. Ok, I'll stop...
yeah stop cos judging by most of the old flames you used to do in the name of apple, you're just making an even bigger idiot of yourself
And yes, we're not allowed to not use Macs without "not understanding how a Mac works." Right.
no flicker, and fullscreen
no flicker, and fullscreen
Quicktime for WIndows has fullscreen (yes, it sucks, but it still has it
ctrl+f in the quicktime window (i dont know if it works in older versions)
Lowe said: "There is a broad set of stuff that needs to be supported. We are working away at it and are on track to deliver it by the end of the year. Developing Windows software can be a challenge at the best of times, as there are so many configurations of Windows PCs and connectivity peripherals."
i like this. maybe people will understand and not blame MS for all their problems. Apple now understands it !
Ok, but seriously...if this product is anything like the previous two major releases of quicktime, then you can forget about me using iTunes for Windows.
heres the url: http://www.osbetas.com
you must register which is free and quick then go to all files, you will see it there. at osbetas.
if anyone has any new links to new alpha or beta soft when they come out, can ya email me please at westcoastguy@msn.com. i can share them for you or hide them in a great place. its all up to you. a sharing community
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