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The iTunes Music Store continues lead the industry

updated 02:50 pm EST, Mon December 15, 2003

ITMS leads the industry

Apple's iTunes Music Store with its competitors enjoying much less success due to Apple's "first mover" advantage, aggressive advertising and its iPod, according to TechNewsworld: "The first to take on Apple was BuyMusic.com in July. It expected 1 million daily song downloads. 'We're not achieving that at all,' says BuyMusic CEO Scott Blum. 'I've spoken with my competitors, and we're nowhere near (Apple's) numbers.'" The article notes that Apple spent over $125 million to advertise the iPod and iTunes Music Store in 2002.

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Yep.

Where's the article?

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It so obvious...

it doesn't need a article.

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LOL

Hey... great to hear. Especially with all those supporting facts. :-)

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RIPE.

this track is just RIPE to be a 10-15 minute live jam.

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Aww...

I feel sorry for BuyMusic. They had Tommy Lee and everything...

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BuyMusic got it all wrong

Building stuff for Windows lusers is a waste of time. Windows is a culture of technical illiterates and non-payers. It's a bad market to develop for.

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No...

No, BuyMusic got it all wrong because their service was confusing, rushed, and didn't work right. Apple got it right because their service is elegant, smooth, and works more or less perfectly.

Build it right, and they'll come. Build it poorly, and people just plain won't.

Say, Mr. Blum, how does that Crow taste? Don't talk big if you don't have the product to back it up. And you lost my business to the rest of Buy.com for locking out Mac users from browsing the music store--thousands of dollars of purchases, down the flusher.

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RE: No.....

Huh, Buy.com lost my business for the same reason, cool.

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2002?

There was no iTMS until 2003..

So which is it? Apple spent $125M to promote the iPod in 2002, or it spent $125M to promote the iPod and iTMS in 2003?

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One point missing

The article misses one important point. The DRM Apple uses seems quite fair compared to the wma-c***.

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Hmmm

$125 million to advertise - $25 million in songs sold = $100 million in the hole.

Sounds like a success to me.

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Right....

"Windows is a culture of technical illiterates and non-payers. It's a bad market to develop for."

This must explain why so many people at Apple are hitting their heard say "Doh! Why didn't we think of this when a MacNN could have figure this out!"

I think you are the "luser" here.

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RE: Hmmm

I think you forgot to include the revenue from iPod sales into your equation. Even if Apple broke even, the mindshare they've gained because of the promotion far outweighs the initial cost.

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RE: Hmmm 2

BTW given your logic would you consider the XBox a success?

This is a troll test...answer carefully.

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What are you listeningto?

(O X-MAS TREE / OTTMAR LIEBERT)

Hi all,

STOP; turn on any iTunes song, and come back . . . "add a song to your post please" . . . . (read on)!

See if this catches on: I propose that all of our (now averaging twice-weekly / twice-daily) posts to iTunes / iPod related posts we include the artist, genre, or composer we're playing in iTunes.

Let people see what we're hearing . . . a tradition of music enjoyment . . . share your tune "in the moment" . . . ie at the end of a message, like this:

(O X-MAS TREE / OTTMAR LIEBERT)

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buy music

Its cute when crymusic.com made all these boastful claims onhow well they are going to do. you cant expect to copy someones looks than go ahead and expect to copy their success. Its one thing to just say how well yoll do base don your desires, but its anotehr thing to actually work hard to make it happen. so it seems that Goodbyemusic.com couldnt compete with teh REAL music store. Good rittance. I, liek many others, saw their rediculous strategem when they blocked mac users. it was a deliberate thing too. at least apple opened the door to pretty much everyone. people see business tactics and the ytake them very seriously. could be thats why MS is getting so much lost customer base. people are seeingtehrough their great marketting of lies, and leaving . peopel do pay attention to truths once they finally see for themselves things for what they really are.

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Re: what are you listen..

Give it up. No one's doing it. Nor do I care what people are listening to (especially since its not what they're listening to, you're telling them to turn something on, and then tell us what it is. That's like telling people to just flip on the the TV and tell people what I'm watching. It would make more sense if the TV were already on.

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Heh heh

'I've spoken with my competitors, and we're nowhere near (Apple's) numbers.'

Can't believe he actually admitted that.

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Could it be ...

'I've spoken with my competitors, and we're nowhere near (Apple's) numbers.'

Can't believe he actually admitted that.

It's a lot easier to admit that 'our numbers are way off (and it's not just me)' than to bail once the failure is squarely leveled on your shoulders.

Could it be (to feed Mr. Blum some more of his own crow) that he's on the wrong platform? Seems the iPod is the platform you should have catered to, Scotty boy.

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The iTunes Music Store continues lead the industry

updated 02:50 pm EST, Mon December 15, 2003

ITMS leads the industry

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BuyMusic got it all wrong

No...

RE: No.....

2002?

One point missing

Hmmm

Right....

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RE: Hmmm 2

What are you listeningto?

buy music

Re: what are you listen..

Heh heh

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