During his speech at MacWorld, where he announced the impending release of the iPhone, Steve Jobs made this statement about the ubiquity of iTunes which was actually pretty stunning:
Apple said iTunes has sold 2 billion songs. The iTunes movie section, with a collection of 250 films, has sold 1.3 million movies in its first four months. Apple also announced that Paramount was now a partner in the iTunes Store and would offer such movies as “The Italian Job,” “Chinatown” and “School of Rock” through the service.
Two billion songs. To understand what that means, you need to remember that it was less than a year ago that Apple announced iTunes had passed the one billion mark. That means that in less than eleven months, Apple did as much business through iTunes as it had during the period from April 2003 through February 2006. Amazing.
