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Apple sells 275,00 songs in first 18 hours

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The Billboard Daily Bulletin notes the apparent "overwhelming" success of the iTunes Music Store: "Observers are calling the launch of Apple Computer's digital music service the iTunes Music Store an overwhelming success. The service, which went live Monday, sold an estimated 275,000 tracks at 99 cents apiece in its first 18 hours, according to major-label sources. The feat is especially remarkable when considering that the offering is available only to the limited universe of users of Apple computers." The article also notes that Apple has secured wholesale agreements with two major labels for the Windows version of the service, which is expected by the end of the year.

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111580 05/01, 12:25pm, EDT its
addictive.

AND LEGAL!

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111581 05/01, 12:33pm, EDT keep buying





Jobs needs a new plane!




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111582 05/01, 12:33pm, EDT Just goes to show ya...
There are so many computers in America and the world, a computer company doesn't need to have 20% market share to make a good profit. Everybody scoffs at Apple's market share but they still have millions of computers out there. When they come up with a good idea (not an uncommon occurance), they stand to profit very well. Not that I think it will stop the critics from calling Apple names...

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111583 05/01, 12:35pm, EDT Just goes to show ya...
Who says you need 20% market share to make a good profit...

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111584 05/01, 12:40pm, EDT Old iPod in new box?
So I went and bought an iPod... To my surprise it wasn't the new one but and old one in the box. Everything else was to the new one, even the cradle was there and the manual etc. What GIVES!!!! I am off to New Zealand in 2 hours and I can't even make it back to tell them my mind!!!! DAMN IT!

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111585 05/01, 12:52pm, EDT Bull puckey.
New iPods aren't even on sale until tomorrow, so I have my doubts that you got an iPod in a new box, be it old or new.

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111586 05/01, 12:55pm, EDT what's the market share
of ferrari?
of BMW?
of mercededs?

of Ford?

Would you really like to be Ford?

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111587 05/01, 12:58pm, EDT Re: Old iPod in new box?
how is that possible? no stores have them..... they won't have them in at all till Friday and are not ALLOWED to sell them until after 18:00. post sounds fishy to me

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111588 05/01, 1:00pm, EDT I spent $5 last night...
Truly effortless. I can acquire music legitimately now. Thanks Apple.

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111590 05/01, 1:09pm, EDT profit
So, Apple sells 275,000 songs. That means their revenue is about $180,000 for those songs.

That's not much, is it?

One real test will be how many iPods they sell in the coming week(s)... I'm sure they make a good profit on iPods.

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