iTunes Music Store at one
updated 09:40 am EDT, Mon April 26, 2004
iTunes Music Store at one
With the iTunes Music Store celebrating its first birthday on Wednesday, CNET takes a look at the it has undergone since Apple's launch. Of note: some labels have started charging more for both singles and albums, although to date services have only passed on the higher charges to consumers who purchase albums; Walmart.com's 88-cent music store has come the closet to duplicating Apple's success, with the store garnering about half as many customers as iTunes had in March; and Apple's competitors continue to believe that Apple's closed approach to the iPod/iTunes will be what unseats both from their dominant positions, while the music industry itself would like to see more interoperability between all services and devices.
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Very interesting
Apple hasn't had a real edge in a market for quite some time. It's fascinating to watch and see if Apple will make the same mistakes it made early on, or maybe this story has no parallel to the Macintosh's early period. Either way it's very interesting to watch.