iTunes website hit by Christmas rush

I bought a bunch of games from the iTunes store on Christmas Day, and I had a lot of trouble connecting.

I would have liked to get my step daughter an iPod for xmas however everyone was sold out of shuffles and nano's. I wouldnt buy her a 30G because it wouldnt last that long and i did not have time to order online so i just bought a junk one for now and will get her an iPod later. Checking the store shelves iPods were sold out, only about 3 Zunes were sold between the 2 stores i checked with.

So much for one of the resolutions TUAW posted here, i.e. not bashing the Zune.
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/12/26/tuaw-resolutions/

I'm not knocking stupid idiots who don't read manuals, one of them sold me a brand new silver ipod nano 2gb out of the package for 20 minutes for $75 this week! wooo! My hubby is a happy boy.

The bought it,(from what I can deduce) gave it to hubby who plugged it in and the stupid windoze users they were drug on music (mp3s and wmvs) from the desktop and when it didn't work, and since there was no software in the box, he (a windoze tech student) declared it crap and he didn't want it. His wife posted it for sale (since she lost the receipt) and after 4 days she went from $150 to $75 when I took the bait. Muahahah.

Not a damned thing wrong with it.

You should have seen her face when I told her she just needed to downlaod itunes and that page one of the manual (I'm guessing they never looked at since it was hard to get out of the little "lucite coffin") tells you that. She obviously wasn't too happy to lose $125 for being married to a moron who is supposed to be a techie and can't even rtfm, but she was nice about it and let us have it anwyay.

So I'm ok with dumbass windoze users with week. Next week though all bets are off.

Am I the only one who noticed that content on the store didn't update from last week? The Free Download of the Week is the same as last week... I guess Steve gave all of the iTS worker elves the week off or something.

For those that don't have an internet connection, I'm sure that Apple's customer service will send those customers a copy of the latest iTunes/iPod updater software for free.

In fact, I may just call them tomorrow to see how willing they are about sending me the software.

Hey jeff, check out the following
http://playlistmag.com/reviews/2006/09/5gipodlate2006/index.php

"Interestingly, unlike all previous iPods, the new 5G, nano, and shuffle iPods no longer include iTunes or the latest iPod software in the box. Instead, Apple has a new iPod/iTunes “start” page on the Web that provides links for downloading the latest version of iTunes—which also now includes all iPod updaters as part of the application itself; no separate downloads are required. "

I have no doubt that the iPod outsold the Zune be many units per Zune sold but the above some how doesn't seem like a sufficient metric to show the sales proportion. The Zune units do not require a visit to a web site to acquire the software; it ships with the unit. As noted in the article, only access to the website and not the store was counted.

On that note I saw a rather interesting interaction with a customer that had received an 80 gig iPod for Xmas. She had come to best buys to complain that she did not receive software with her unit, and she has not an internet connection with which to download it. The sales associate was able to download the software in the store and burn it to a CD for her. But I wonder how usable the software will be withoug access to the CDDB database. On the other hand, if she can live without an Internet connection perhaps she can be happy manually entering in all of that information.

It's up 400% because iPods don't come with the CD to install, instead you need to go to apple's website and dled it. So there's a reason for the 400% increase. It's funny too cause one of the system requirements for an ipod say internet access. And do you think that the average Mac or Windows consumer updates thier iTunes software frequently? I doubt it.

Isn't iTunes on the disc in the iPod box?