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And that’s not counting the songs downloaded as part of the Pepsi iTunes promotion.
At the current download rate, Apple calculates their downloads to be 2.5 million songs per week or 130 million songs per year. While the company would not detail the platform split, their goals are quite clear.
The Windows market is part of the story.
“Certainly our Mac base created the momentum and were the first to adopt iTunes, but it’s gone on to become a national cross-platform story—we expect to see iTunes Music Store will reach everyone with a personal computer that is interested in music online,” Chris Bell, director of Product Marketing for iTunes, told MacCentral....”Apple has been able to sustain its market lead because it offers the content, the application, and the hardware, and thus an integration that is much superior than the competition,” said Tim Deal, senior analyst with Technology Business Research. “Superior integration means a better user experience and better word-of-mouth marketing as a result. No other competitor currently in the music download business can offer all of the elements of the equation that Apple can, and it makes a huge difference.”
"Jump the Shark" is a term used by TV show fans to describe a moment when a series starts to go downhill.
Kerry fails to back up foreign 'endorsements'
Sen. John Kerry refuses to provide any information to support his assertion earlier this week that he has met with foreign leaders who beseeched him to prevail over President Bush in November's election.
The Massachusetts Democrat has made no official foreign trips since the start of last year, according to Senate records and his own published schedules. And an extensive review of Mr. Kerry's travel schedule domestically revealed only one opportunity for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to meet with foreign leaders here.
On Monday, Mr. Kerry told reporters in Florida that he'd met with foreign leaders who privately endorsed him. "I've met with foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly," he said. "But, boy, they look at you and say: 'You've got to win this. You've got to beat this guy. We need a new policy.' Things like that."
Aides and supporters of Mr. Kerry have said providing names of the leaders or their countries would injure those nations' ongoing relations with the current Bush administration.
"In terms of who he's talked to, we're not going to discuss that," spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said yesterday.
Refusing to identify foriegn leaders who support you? Who's ever done that before? It sounds like these leaders don't exist. Or perhaps Kerry is deluding himself into seeing support where there is none. And of course, it's always possible that the leaders he refers to are those of France, Germany, and North Korea, who might indeed support him, and whose support he knows would only harm him with the American people.
Republicans have begun calling Mr. Kerry the "international man of mystery," and said his statements go even beyond those of former Vice President Al Gore, who was besieged by stories that he lied or exaggerated throughout the 2000 presidential campaign.
Is it possible that the Kerry campaign has jumped the shark?
TEN TERROR BOMBS TERRORIZE MADRID AT RUSH; 182 DEAD, 900 INJURED
Kerry would approach terrorism with police action only. So in this case, with hundreds dead and injured, he would send out the police to arrest a few of the culprits. Without question that would be an insufficient response.
The saying is that Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned. It’s an apt description of Kerry’s policies.
9th Circuit Court Overturns New Iraq Constitution
Since the leadership on the Left currently define themselves as anything Bush is not (a rather hollow position), naturally we see this article today:
Furor over Bush’s 9/11 ad The Bush reelection campaign yesterday unveiled its first three campaign commercials showcasing Ground Zero images, angering some 9/11 families who accused President Bush of exploiting the tragedy for political advantage. “It’s a slap in the face of the murders of 3,000 people,” said Monica Gabrielle, whose husband died in the twin tower attacks. “It is unconscionable.” Gabrielle and several other family members said the injury was compounded by Bush’s refusal to testify in open session before the 9/11 commission. “I would be less offended if he showed a picture of himself in front of the Statue of Liberty,” said Tom Roger, whose daughter was a flight attendant on doomed American Airlines Flight 11. “But to show the horror of 9/11 in the background, that’s just some advertising agency’s attempt to grab people by the throat.”
So Bush isn’t supposed to refer to 9/11 in the campaign for President? He isn’t supposed to show any visual reference to it in the TV ads? The Left would love to prevent Bush from referring to this in any way. They’re aware of how much the American people appreciate Bush’s leadership in this time of war. They know they can’t win on this subject. And their response is, to try to keep him from talking about it. Good luck.
I just voted, and my local polling place had a sophisticated polling technology unlike any I had used before. It eliminated chads. It dispensed with buggy computer software. Instead, it used the unheard of, technologically-superior capabilities of… ink.
The ballot is just like the kind used with chads, but it has the amazing advance of using no chads.
The marking device that used to be a punch that would knock out a chad, is in this case something that deposits a perfect circle of black ink on the ballot.
This seems perfect. How is it there is no discussion of using this in place of computers for voting?
Pictures of the device, called an InkaVote, are here.
