RSSJobs: iTunes Served 2 Billion Songs
By Ed Oswald | Published January 9, 2007, 12:27 PM
AT MACWORLD - Starting off his yearly keynote at MacWorld 2007 in San Francisco, Steve Jobs said "we're going to make history." Indeed the company has -- with Jobs noting nearly half of the new Macs sold at retail have been to new Macintosh customers.
First, Jobs first hit on iTunes, which has just recently surpassed the two billion song mark, as well as surpassing Amazon to become the fifth largest retailer. On the television show side, 50 million have been sold, with 350 different shows available.
Big news came later with movies, where Paramount joined Disney in offering its films online. The success of the movie venture is quite evident: over 1.3 million movies have been sold in just four months. Over 250 movies are now offered through iTunes, Jobs said.
Jobs couldn't resist taking a shot at the Zune, noting it only had a 2 percent market share, versus 62 percent for the iPod during the month of November. Sales data for December for the Zune was not available.
Apple's new Saying is, "Will you take fries and a drink with that?"
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Of course, Apple only has 4% of the computer market. My prediction is that by the end of 2008, Apple is going to be in trouble, If I'm wrong, I'll strak down Mahhatten drinking a beer. Not a pretty sight.
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Jobs couldn't resist taking a shot at the Zune, noting it only had a 2 percent market share, versus 62 percent for the iPod during the month of November.
Wasn't November when Zune was released, or was it October? Either way, a single version 1 product within its first months of release, in a flooded market, with much less advertising, and the lack of a fanatical customer base, gaining a 2% market share is not really something to take lightly...especially when you are a company that has fought over 2 decades to get the less than 10% market share you have in the arena that was so much your primary focus that it was initially a part of your company name.
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how much did firefox has when IE vs. firefox started?
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I would bet more than Safari.
Just goes to show, eventually everyone gets full of themselves, thinks their infallible, and fail to take underdogs seriously...of course, Apple seems like it has always been full of itself, maybe thats why it handed the PC OS market to MS on a silver platter back in the day.
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You know...
I'm always amazed that Apple will take cheap shots at MS for having 2% of the MP3 market, but yet MS can't open their mouth about Apple's share of the computer market without Apple being up in arms about it.
Not that I'm a MS suporter, but if you can't take it, don't dish it out.
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well , i have about 100 i would like to return
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