Apple's European iTunes store has quickly reached 50 million song sales since its opening this June in the UK, France, Germany, and a host of other European nations. Music lovers have flocked to the fledgling service, downloading their favorite songs to transfer to the wildly popular iPod.
Since its opening over two years ago in the United States and subsequent openings across the globe, iTunes has sold over 430 million songs worldwide, reaching 70 percent of the music market. "We'd like to thank European music fans for making iTunes such a success" said Eddy Cue, vice president of Applications at Apple.
News source: GeekCoffee
Since its opening over two years ago in the United States and subsequent openings across the globe, iTunes has sold over 430 million songs worldwide, reaching 70 percent of the music market. "We'd like to thank European music fans for making iTunes such a success" said Eddy Cue, vice president of Applications at Apple.
News source: GeekCoffee
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Then, I'm gonna mutter incoherently and shake my walking-stick in a general manner, vaugely threateningly.
I'm old.
Unless they somehow manage to sell negative numbers of songs, the "itunes has now sold ________ songs" number will continue to increase pretty much constantly.
In the world of technology & the Internet a month is a very long time: News happens hourly, not daily.
Which brings me to my next point: I know Neowin isn't exacly the New Your Times, but could whoever is in charge around here light a fire under the news gathering department. You guys are sliping, and it's been showing for a while now.
First of all, the above peice rates a 1 out of 10 on my "Newsworthyness" scale (a 1 being an examination of the contents of the editor's belly-button lint collection, a 10 being the unveiling of a nanocomputer that's is comercialy available and costs virtualy nothing, needs no operating system, and can read the users mind.) I really don't care much about the iTunes store, and judging by the (lack of) response this peice got, it's safe to say that I'm not alone.
I hope Apple paid you for this story becasue you just gave them a bunch of free publicity they didn't earn. As editor, it's your job to make them earn a place on Neowin. It would be different if this piece was about something new... but the iTunes store isn't new anymore. Not even in the UK. News... you notice how the word "NEW" makes up 3/4 of the word "News", huh? There's a reason for that; You should know that. So, how in the nine hells did this peice qualify in you mind as News?
How about you get over yourself. Just because you don't think it's news, doesn't mean others don't. "New" makes up 3/4 of the word "News"? Funniest thing I've heard all day.
I bet you didn't like the tsunami at Christmas, but hell - it was news alright.
Also, you don't have to bother reading the whole article. Skimming the "main stories" atop the page would take a few seconds for any normal human being. Surely from those few seconds you can decide what news to read and what to skip?
Ooh and get me on the news team
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