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Archive for the 'iTunes' Category

One Of Those Posts That Just Makes You Feel Old

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, June 30th, 2009. Filed under Technology, iPhone, iPod, iTunes

Earlier this month, the BBC asked a 13 year-old British boy to trade his iPod in for a Sony Walkman:
My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day.
He had told me it was big, but I hadn’t realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book.
When I saw [...]

What Is Steve Jobs Planning Now ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, September 4th, 2007. Filed under Technology, iPhone, iPod, iTunes

Apple has a major announced scheduled this week and, as usual, the media is already doing a lot of free advertising:
When Apple said it was going to make an announcement at the Moscone Center in San Francisco next week, it triggered an elaborate and familiar guessing game.
Could it be the iPhone Nano, the subject of [...]

NBC Makes A Dumb Move

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, September 1st, 2007. Filed under Technology, Television, iPod, iTunes

Apparently, they aren’t going to allow any new content on Apples iTunes Store:
The dispute between Apple and NBC Universal over the pricing of videos on iTunes grew more heated yesterday as Apple announced that it would not add any new episodes of NBC television shows to the online store’s inventory.
Among the fall shows NBC Universal [...]

iTunes Reaches No. 3

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, June 24th, 2007. Filed under Music, iPod, iTunes

Apple’s iTunes Store has passed Amazon and Target to become the third-biggest music retailer in the nation:
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Apple Inc.’s iTunes online store was the third-largest overall music retailer in the United States, leapfrogging ahead of Amazon.com and Target Corp. in units sold, a market research firm said Friday.
ITunes had a 9.8 percent [...]

100 Million iPods

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 9th, 2007. Filed under Technology, iPod, iTunes

Today, Apple announced that it had sold 100 million iPods since the product was first introduced:
CUPERTINO, California?April 9, 2007?Apple? today announced that the 100 millionth iPod? has been sold, making the iPod the fastest selling music player in history. The first iPod was sold five and a half years ago, in November 2001, and [...]

The Real Digital Music Revolution

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 2nd, 2007. Filed under Music, Technology, iPod, iTunes

Forget iTunes, more songs are downloaded from peer-to-peer networks:
In 2006, the number of households with PCs that downloaded at least one song using free peer-to-peer software, like Limewire or BitTorrent, grew a modest 7.2 percent, reaching 14.9 million, according to figures released by the NPD Group, a market-research firm.
Meanwhile, the number of PC households that [...]

The Beginning Of The End Of DRM

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, April 2nd, 2007. Filed under Music, Technology, iPod, iTunes

Today, Apple and record producer EMI announced a deal that will make almost all of EMI’s catalog available on iTunes without copy protection:
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – EMI, the world’s third largest music company, said on Monday it was making its music available online without a key anti-piracy measure in a deal with Apple Inc. to [...]

The Decline (And Eventual Fall) Of The Album

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, March 26th, 2007. Filed under Music, Technology, iTunes

As I’ve chronicled many times on this blog, the music industry is undergoing significant change. Consumers are buying fewer CD’s and more digital songs, and one of the results of that decision is manifesting itself in the end of the album:
LOS ANGELES, March 25 ? Now that the three young women in Candy Hill, a [...]

Compact Disc Sales Continue To Plunge

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, March 21st, 2007. Filed under Music, iPod, iTunes

Sales of compact discs took another dramatic plunge in the first three months of 2007:

In a dramatic acceleration of the seven-year sales decline that has battered the music industry, compact-disc sales for the first three months of this year plunged 20% from a year earlier, the latest sign of the seismic shift in the way [...]

Steve Jobs To Music Industry: Dump DRM

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, February 7th, 2007. Filed under Music, Technology, iPod, iTunes

Steve Jobs has posted an open letter to the music industry in which he calls for an end to anti-piracy controls on digital music sold online:
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs yesterday called on record companies to let online music stores sell digital music files without anti-piracy controls, an idea that some analysts say has merit.
“This [...]

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