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How Steve Jobs got the Internet to pay for content

by Steven Sande (Aug 30th, 2011)

Just about every Internet and print news outlet has paid tribute to Steve Jobs over the past few days, but PaidContent.org -- a website dedicated to discussion of the sale of digital content -- had one of the more interesting plaudits. In a post by Media Guardian's Charles Arthur, Jobs was ...

Report: iTunes costs $1.3 billon per year to run

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 13th, 2011)

An interesting report from Asymco estimates that it costs Apple US$1.3 billion per year to run the iTunes store. That sum was reached by examining known numbers, like the total number of songs, movies, TV shows and apps that have been downloaded, plus the number of iTunes accounts and how much ...

Sony denies rumored plans to exit iTunes

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 17th, 2011)

Sony is preparing to launch its Music Unlimited service in the US today and has used this occasion to debunk the rumor that it was pulling out of iTunes. A recent interview with Michael Ephraim, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment Australia, hinted that Sony may leave iTunes if its own ...

Sony hints at pulling music from iTunes

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 11th, 2011)

Sony introduced Music Unlimited in Europe last year and is slated to kick off the streaming music service in Australia soon. The subscription service has a library of 6 million tracks that can be streamed wirelessly to Sony TVs, Blu-ray players and the PlayStation 3 with support for portable ...

The Beatles invade iTunes charts within 12 hours

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 17th, 2010)

It's been just over 24 hours since the release of The Beatles' complete back catalogue on iTunes and they are already dominating the album charts in a rather unusual way. In fact, as reported by MacObserver, within 12 hours of availability The Beatles had 15 albums placed in the Top 40 best-selling ...

Today is just another day I will forget

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 16th, 2010)

When Apple teased "Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never forget" on their home page yesterday I hoped it was going to be something really cool -- like cloud-based iTunes or a subscription iTunes service. When the news began to leak out that the event was the Beatles coming to iTunes ...

Apple's iTunes nears 10 billionth song download

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 11th, 2010)

Apple has announced it is nearing the 10 billion mark for iTunes music downloads. iTunes changed the way you buy music, making songs and albums available for download, day or night. Seven years later, we're about to celebrate our biggest milestone for music, yet -- 10 billion songs ...

Why iTunes needs to offer an album-based subscription service

by Sang Tang (Sep 14th, 2009)

One of the key announcements to come out of Apple's "It's only rock and roll, but I like it" event on September 9th was iTunes LP. As implied in its name, iTunes LP seeks to provide a more rich album experience, something that has taken a backseat given the decline of physical albums. iTunes LP ...

Incredible: Apple responsible for 25% of US music sales

by Dave Caolo (Aug 19th, 2009)

The NPD Group has released amazing numbers this week: Apple is generating one quarter of all US music sales. Equally impressive, but less surprising, is that Apple is also responsible for 69% of all online music sales. Wal-Mart is #2 for US music sales at 14% (that's a combination of both their ...

iTunes 101: Deauthorize all computers at once

by Cory Bohon (Nov 12th, 2008)

Many iTunes users are aware of the 5-computer limit for purchases made through iTunes. But what happens when you reach this limit? Well, you could go to each computer and de-authorize it by going to Store > De-authorize Computer, but this doesn't work if you get rid of a computer and forget to ...

Apple's 10K filing shows $3.34 billion in 2008 iTunes sales

by Steven Sande (Nov 6th, 2008)

Apple's annual SEC 10K filing showed that music-related sales increased by US$844 million (or 34%) to $3.34 billion in fiscal 2008, up from US$2.5 billion in 2007. Apple cited "heightened consumer interest in downloading third-party digital content" as the reason for the hefty increase. Apple noted ...

iTunes collects season finales for you

by Scott McNulty (May 22nd, 2007)

Say what you will about the video quality of iTunes content, but it sure is convenient to download an episode or two of a show that you missed when it aired. The web elves that run the iTunes Store are determined to make it even more convenient it would seem, as they have gathered all the TV season ...

Star Trek in iTunes (again)

by Dave Caolo (Mar 20th, 2007)

Back in January, episodes of the original Star Trek TV series were added to the US iTunes store. Then they disappeared, and now they're back again - two times over. Specifically, the original first season [iTunes link], is listed separately from the digitally enhanced episodes from the same season ...

Super Bowl highlights now in iTunes

by Dave Caolo (Feb 5th, 2007)

If you want to relive that abysmal game for only $1.99US (it's a 22 minute video), just click here to be taken to the iTunes Store. Now that the season is over, I wonder if that's the end of NFL content in iTunes? The Pro Bowl will be played this weekend, and the NFL Network (which has been ...

How Apple helps the environment

by Dave Caolo (Jan 31st, 2007)

Are you paying attention, Greenpeace? Blogger Chiggs at Torents examines the iTunes Store's impact on the environment, and it's a favorable one. The production of a single CD results in aluminum, nickel, dyes, polycarbonates and more. At this month's Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs announced that the ...