January 6 '09 - 2:12 pm
Apple announced today at the Macworld keynote that 8 million tracks from the iTunes Store will be available DRM-free, with more to follow in March.
posted in Apple, Computer Business, Music Business, iTunes
December 3 '08 - 8:03 pm
I normally don’t comment on (or care much about) Apple business news and analysis, but how can these two stories, which both appeared today, be reconciled?
- “Apple’s iPod Problem: With fewer iPod users upgrading, the days of explosive growth are over. And that leaves iPhones and Macs picking up the slack” – BusinessWeek
- “Apple iPod sales surprise analyst: Analyst reports shortages of Apple’s iPod as sales remain strong amid tough economy” – Associated Press
Huh?
posted in Computer Business, Opinion, iPod
October 3 '07 - 2:06 pm
Chicago Trib: In what is shaping up to be a hotly contested battle for consumers’ gadget dollars this holiday season, Verizon Wireless and Microsoft Corp. will announce new products Wednesday that clearly borrow from Apple’s recent innovations. “The Zune products are strong,” said technology analyst Rob Enderle. “This will help make it an interesting quarter for Apple. They have a lot of people really mad at them. That could cost them some market share.”
LA Times: Analysts said the new Zunes, which Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates unveiled to reporters in Redmond, Wash., on Tuesday, might help the company hold on to its sliver of the market and perhaps gain some ground against fledgling entrants. But Microsoft wasn’t given much chance of taking customers from Apple Inc. “They’re not going to gain against Apple because there is nothing really innovative about what they’re doing,” said Van Baker, a vice president at Gartner Group.
posted in Computer Business
January 31 '07 - 5:23 pm
According to this MacNN article, “Traffic to Apple’s website and the popularity of iTunes continues to surge at a rate greater than many of other top internet companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!” Now, not for nothin’, but this site also has experienced a surge of usage over the past six months; I’ve recently had to purchase more bandwidth to accommodate more traffic, which I have never had to do in five years or so of web presence. So I’m wondering: does this mean there really are more Mac users? And are they hitting other Mac-centric sites in the same proportion?
posted in Apple, Computer Business, iTunes
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