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Peter Lowe , Apple’s Director of Marketing for Applications and Services, http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/2003_07_29.shtml#002622”>said:
Apple for Windows is on track to launch by the end of this year…Usage rules for Windows version of iTunes: certainly it is our intention to have the broad music rights…
The end of the album? Perhaps not:
Out of all our iTunes sales, 46 percent has been sold as albums..the disintegration of the album has not happened, contrary to what people are saying…
Apple’s thoughts on why people will pay to buy music:
The way to go after illegal file sharing services is to compete with them…go after their weaknesses. The reason why people used these services is instant gratification: for most of the people who use file sharing, it is more about flexibility and not about free…we aim to take advantages of weaknesses of illegal sharing services: unreliable encoding; bad connection; no previews; wrong music; no album cover art; and at the end of the day, it is stealing.
Check out what Charles Haddad of Business Week says about iTunes users:
Fans of iTunes represent an unstoppable force. Who wants to keep all those CDs if you can carry around 1,000 songs on an iPod and easily expand that library through the Internet? Not many I suspect. Nor is this growing army of Internet-savvy users going to stop at music. Not too far in the future an iVideo and perhaps an iTome, for downloading literature and audiobooks, respectively, will be available.
From Rolling Stone magazine:
The recent success of Apple’s iTunes Music Store may be the best news the industry has had lately. ... “iTunes has shown that there is a real business potential for selling downloads,” says a source at Warner Bros. “It has been encouraging from a symbolic standpoint even more than a financial standpoint.” Amazon.com and other online retailers now plan to launch their own download programs.
