iTunes Music Store hits Billionth Download 214
SirWraith writes "In case anyone hasn't realized Apple has had a counter going up to a billion for a few weeks now. Apparently last night, they hit the mark. From ABC News: 'Apple says Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Mich., was the lucky audiophile who downloaded "Speed of Sound" by Brit pop band Coldplay, giving the Cupertino, Calif., company bragging rights to the 10-figure milestone.
Thanks to a generous prize package from Apple, Ostrovsky will now use a $10,000 iTunes music card to keep those downloads flowing on his new 20-inch iMac computer, and listen to his favorite tunes on one of the 10 60GB iPods.'"
what a scam (Score:5, Funny)
DON'T BELIEVE APPLE, if they offer you $10,000 open your eyes and see it's a SCAM to get YOUR MONEY!
MOD PARENT FUNNY (Score:2)
Re:what a scam (Score:2)
10,102 (paying the 98c) songs ~= 40,408 GB of music.
They, however, have given him 10 x 60GB players. That great gift card won't even fill one of them. He'll have to drop another five grand of his own money at the rate the iTunes music store charges just to fill one of them.
Then, with another $15,000 / player for the other 9 players... Apple have given him the gift that keeps on giving [back to them], needing a total
Re:what a scam (Score:2)
Re:what a scam (Score:2)
Re:what a scam (Score:2)
40 Year Old Virgin (Score:4, Funny)
David: You know how I know that you're gay?
Cal: How? Cuz you're gay? and you can tell who other gay people are.
David: You know how I know you're gay?
Cal: How?
David: You like Coldplay.
Could've been worse (Score:2)
Or imagine him DLing some Boyband junk. Or Tokyo Hotel. Oh, the ways of f..ing up when DLing music today are so numerous, you could get ridiculed for pretty much anything there is in the charts today.
At least by me!
Re:Could've been worse (Score:3)
I'm gunna keep downloading the tracks I like, no matter who "performs" them, whether you like it or not.
Snob.
Re:Could've been worse (Score:2)
Re:Could've been worse (Score:2)
Re:Could've been worse (Score:2)
You really think Coldplay isn't as bad as any of that other stuff you mentioned ?
Man, you're in *denial*.
p.s... out of morbid curiosity, what's Tokyo Hotel? Nothing shows up in iTunes for th
Re:40 Year Old Virgin (Score:2)
another reason that I think myspace is evil. [slashdot.org]
1060 GB IPod? (Score:1)
Re:1060 GB IPod? (Score:2)
it's ten 60GB iPods.
Re:1060 GB IPod? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:1060 GB IPod? (Score:2)
10 iPods? I wonder where he's going to cram the other 18 earbuds.
Re:1060 GB IPod? (Score:2)
Yay, math! (Score:1)
Re:Yay, math! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Yay, math! (Score:2, Insightful)
The purpose of an iPod is not to be full, it is to carry the owner's entire music collection. When I bought my 20gb iPod, I only owned 10gb of music. I have no intention of attempting to fill it up. I'll just buy music when I feel like it. Assuming that
Re:Yay, math! (Score:2)
I told the same thing to my woman when I tried to convince her to let me buy a Ferrari... How could she not value my life that much?
BTW, you MUST take me for a ride in your school bus. Consider the (cost of contents)/(price of container) ratio on that bad boy!
Re:Yay, math! (Score:2)
Or he could sign up for a subscription music service. Oh wait Apple doesn't offer one or let any other company offer one for iPod users. He's SOL.
Anyone shooting for it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Anyone shooting for it (Score:2)
Lotta loot (Score:1)
I know they gave away free songs through Pepsi and others. But still... That's a good return for little effort right there.
Re:Lotta loot (Score:3, Interesting)
990M is a nice bit of income, but most of it [1] is paid out again. Apple doesn't say how profitable the iTMS is, just that it's "above even".
1: 10% of the cost of a song goes to the artist, 55% to the record company. Artists who do business with Apple directly, get 70%. Most of the remainder pays for the hardware and bandwidth.
Rumor has it that Apple's profit is 8%, or $80M after 1 Gsongs.
Re:Lotta loot (Score:2)
Yay, thank you for making us hundreds of millions of dollars, here's the cheapest big computer we make... and 10 ipods...
I mean, it is cool that he gets an iPod and 9 eBay sales, and a crap load of music, but come on, I'd rather have some fancy powerbook or MacBook or something like that.
Re:Lotta loot (Score:4, Funny)
The 10 iPods is weird though. I'd rather have one of the iPod commercial girls.
Re:Lotta loot (Score:2)
Re:Lotta loot (Score:2, Interesting)
Yawn...who cares? (Score:2)
Re:Yawn...who cares? (Score:2, Funny)
Free music downloads reached 80 bajillion last week. Music companies are rich, complaining, putting out crappy stuff like Coldplay.
Re:Yawn...who cares? (Score:2)
lol a /.er's math being off is about as much of a surpise (interesting) as the sun rising in the morning.
(Smacks snooze and goes back to sleep)
The RIAA was right (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The RIAA was right (Score:3, Interesting)
It's not, for them, they aren't 100% in charge of how much Apple charges for the music. Steve is fighting the conglomorates to keep the prices on iTMS low. They want to raise the prices. Because they can't do as they wish it's not viable.
Re:The RIAA was right (Score:2, Insightful)
So, having avoided giving up co
Re:The RIAA was right (Score:2)
Not to mention Magnatune, which we should all take every possible opportunity to plug.
Re:The RIAA was right (Score:3, Insightful)
Put like that, it rather looks like the business model is more about controlling the distribution of a product rather than the product itself.
Sounds like organised crime - Prohibition era, organised crime distributes alcohol, makes money and gets very tetchy about someone else competing with them. Today, organised crime distributes music^H^H^H^H^Hdrugs, makes money and gets very tetchy about someone else competing with them.
Re:The RIAA was right (Score:2)
Are you talking about Steve Jobs or the recording industry. It applies to both.
Re:The RIAA was right (Score:2)
Re:The RIAA was right (Score:2)
Re:The RIAA was right (Score:2)
* Yeah, yeah I know.
Audiophile? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2)
Of course you can't hear the artifacts. You're hearing is leaving you [slashdot.org]!
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2, Funny)
Audiophiles buy expensive equipment like record players but listen exclusively
Re:Audiophile? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2)
The problem is: A lot depends on the song as well. I know there are many people out there who say they cannot hear a difference between a compressed file and a "pure" file even on expensive equipment. For me it truly depends on the song.
But one thing to keep in mind (in my opinion) is the "feeling" a song produce in the room, if I play it back on a pair of 10K speakers [flickr.com] then I am more likely to hear any artifcats or "feel" th
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2)
Having said that, encoders have made great strides in the last 10 years.
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2)
Not some kid who bought a song on iTunes.
Re:Digital Audio - Can be audiophile quality.... (Score:2)
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Why does everyone focus on the iPods? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Why does everyone focus on the iPods? (Score:2)
Re:Why does everyone focus on the iPods? (Score:3, Informative)
Juilliard, for the curious.
Coldplay coincidence! (Score:2)
Apple stats (Score:2)
How many people this represents
How many of these people are prize redemptions or giveaways?
How how many of these songs are validated on more than one computer and one iPod --- that would be really interesting to learn if people are still sharing
Audiophile? (Score:3, Insightful)
No audiophile worthy of the appellation would download an overly-compressed pop tune.
Re:Audiophile? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Audiophile? (Score:2)
So true, its painful...
"Apple only uses certified kryptonite-plated Monster(tm) Cable to connect its servers to your internets."
999,899,994 Ashlee Simpson & Cold Play... (Score:4, Interesting)
Soul Amp (My Band) 6
Actually I am stoked about iTunes/Mp3 and iPods....as a indie musician, self producing with a home grown label, iTunes allows us to collect 65 cents per song. Direct to the the band...
Unfortunately without the big money for PR and payola (yes Apple probably takes payola too...despite claims otherwise, I think they call them marketing fees or "services") We are relegated to being just 13 songs in a sea of millions. Thus sales have been slow. But...that can change in a heartbeat as anyone who listens to music can see.
So...feel free to scope iTunes and search for Soul Amp...I need another guitar amplifier (VOX Ac-30 or Matchless) and a leslie for our 1958 Hammond M3 organ.
Also for people who refuse to pay for music until guilt finally takes hold after scamming every song ever recorded, we have tracks of tunes we are working on for our next disk on our website. Hep yer self...I say whay wait until a rash breaks out from the guilt of free downloading...by indie music from iTunes. The bands actually get the bulk of the money. 65 cents of 99 is pretty damn good. Most bands that get mp3 blogged are on iTunes.
http://soul-amp.com/ [soul-amp.com]
Re:999,899,994 Ashlee Simpson & Cold Play... (Score:2)
Re:999,899,994 Ashlee Simpson & Cold Play... (Score:2)
The other thing you don't take into account is that the iTMS is a distribution model, not an advertising model. The RIAA solved the advertising model already (with it's pitfalls too), while the iTMS has solved the distribution model.
Under
Audiophiles? (Score:2, Redundant)
Apple says Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Mich., was the lucky audiophile who downloaded "Speed of Sound" by Brit pop band Coldplay ...
There are audiophiles using iTunes? When did this happen?Do they included refunded purchases in that total? (Score:2, Interesting)
Razorback (Score:3, Funny)
Oh wait.
Call me cynical but... (Score:4, Funny)
Contribution of iTMS to iPod success seems small (Score:4, Insightful)
This seems to contradict the oft repeated claims that the iPod ties you to iTMS, or that iTMS is a major contributor to the iPod's success.
Re:Contribution of iTMS to iPod success seems smal (Score:2)
Apple DOES make money on iPods.
Re:Contribution of iTMS to iPod success seems smal (Score:2)
Well, to the first, I've got an iPod, but all of my music comes of CDs I've bought. So, no, you're obviously not tied to iTMS if you have an iPod, even though people seem to be completely mistaken about that.
BUT, since I (and probably a lot of others) don't buy their songs on-line, that means that the people who are buying songs from the iTunes store are doing it in hig
Re:Contribution of iTMS to iPod success seems smal (Score:2)
What you forget is that those 42 million iPods were probably sold to less than 42 million people, and purchased songs are transferrable to any number of iPods. An average family may own three iPods, each loaded with thrice the average number of songs from your math.
This seems to contradict the oft repeated claims that the iPod ties you to iTMS
Rudimentary knowledge already contradicts tha
Re:Contribution of iTMS to iPod success seems smal (Score:2)
Re:Contribution of iTMS to iPod success seems smal (Score:2)
Have you tried toothpaste? Put a little on it and rub with your finger (not a toothbrush, the bristles itself will scratch it.) Then get a holder for it.
Re:Contribution of iTMS to iPod success seems smal (Score:3, Insightful)
I wish I can put this another way, but your math stinks.
Apple states clearly that "song capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding". Your one-hour long tunes do not count as ten, but 22.5 ((60 min / 4 min) * (192 kbps / 128 kbps)). Each of your 4-minute 192 kbps songs would also count as 1.5
10 iPods? (Score:2)
In other news..... (Score:2)
"One BILLION DOWNLOADS"
Or not.
It figures. (Score:3)
Figures.
Fucking Coldplay [everything...laynow.com].
they should do better... (Score:2)
Notice the song milestones? (Score:2)
1,000,000,000 - Speed of Sound - Coldplay
500,000,000 - Mississippi Girl - Faith Hill
100,000,000 - Sumersault - Zero7
25,000,000 - Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! - Frank Sinatra
Re:Notice the song milestones? (Score:2)
I'm sure quite a lot of the /. crowd is interested in that.
Re:That... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:first post (Score:2, Funny)
Re:first post (Score:2)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/MoEntertai
They got sold on eBay a while back.
I'm sure someone is very proud of their purchase.
Re:Thanks a Billion ... dammit. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Thanks a Billion ... dammit. (Score:3)
someone mod this man to funny (Score:2, Funny)
Too bad I have no mod points.
Re:Billionth??!!? (Score:2)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/billionth [thefreedictionary.com]
Elitism Ho! (Score:2)
There are no sheep. (Score:2)
Re:Our Counter Goes Up To 11 (Score:2)
At least Fairplay has been tested a billion times over now.
Re:10 iPods??? (Score:2)
Re:*cough*rigged*cough* (Score:2)
(not a total loss. I downloaded an Iced Earth album with an iTunes gift card, heh)
Re:turning iTMS-dollars into real money... (Score:2)
How would you resell it if it *didn't* have DRM? Would you really buy FLACs, mp3s, or OGGs from random private individuals, and expect them to be legal? At least with ITMS, Apple could conceivably set up a transfer mechanism, so you would have some proof of ownership.
Re:Better use for the money (Score:2)
Why would they port iTunes to an operating system that can be considered competition for OS X?