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iTunes settles after hiccup disturbs sales
updated 05:20 pm EST, Thu December 28, 2006
iTunes hiccup settles
Apple's iTunes Music Store today returned to normal after numerous customers reported receiving numerous error messages and long delays as they attempted to download songs over a two day span. Wall Street analysts suspect that the delays were caused by mammoth music sales which exceeded the company's expectations, as well as its ability to handle the enormous sum of shoppers trying to access the store simultaneously, according to the Associated Press. The Cupertino-based company saw iTunes visits catapult 413 percent on Christmas day this year over last year, and the Apple Store was dubbed the fourth most-visited website in the Hitwise Retail Index on December 25th of 2006.
Slow iTunes?
12/28, 07:10pm reply
I'm in iTunes all day long. I buy songs everyday because I'm in the music business, and yes even Christmas I bought some. I personally didn't experience any slow downs at the iTunes Store thru today.
My 2 cents anyway.
mozart11
Junior Member
Joined: Aug 2000
real slow...
12/28, 07:59pm reply
... at least when I was trying to gift two songs...
raccoong
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jun 2006
Zune store pwns iTunes!!
12/28, 08:23pm reply
Ha ha, there was no slowdown at the Zune store! All Zune servers were able to cope with the one visitor that came by at about 3:56 p.m.
corsair
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Sep 2005
Heh...
12/28, 10:25pm reply
Hillariously true, corsair!!
juraiprince
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Feb 2006
HAHA
12/31, 12:06pm reply
Yeah, that sounds like an awesome social party at the Zune store! LAME! I got a $25 GC to iTMS, but I can't decide what I want to buy... hmm...
iPond317
Forum Regular
Joined: Feb 2000