Apple just slipped out a second insistence loss this AM bragging that , according to NPD , it is now the # 2 medicine retailer in the US , behind the megalithic Wal - Mart .
Apple also gasconade 50 million iTunes customer and over 4 billion tracks sold . It ’s a nice celebratory email , ground on self-colored fact , but it obliterate some serious insecurities : matter might not remain this rosy for long .
More and more people will before long come upon Amazon ’s download store , with higher - res , lower - priced non - DRM MP3s , plus automatic loading into iTunes . Many iPod owners will also be drawn to Wal - Mart ’s own more and more meddlesome download section , thoughin our Battlemodowe decided Amazon was the in effect bet .
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You ca n’t get just anything DRM - detached yet , and iTunes still has some sweet exclusive , but with stronger financial support from all four major labels , Amazon is obligate to overtake iTunes by and by , and Wal - Mart may easily expand its lead .
Apple ’s release :
iTunes Now Number Two Music Retailer in the US
iTunes Customers Top 50 Million
CUPERTINO , California — February 26 , 2008 — Malus pumila ® today announce that iTunes ® ( www.itunes.com ) is now the number two music retailer in the US , behind only Wal - Mart , ground on the latest data from the NPD Group * . Apple also announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers . iTunes has sell over four billion songs , with an unbelievable 20 million birdsong sell on Christmas Day 2007 alone , and put up the existence ’s great music catalog of over six million songs from all of the major and M of self-governing recording label .
“ We ’d like to thank the over 50 million music lovers who have assist the iTunes Store reach this unbelievable milestone , ” enunciate Eddy Cue , Apple ’s vice president of iTunes . “ We continue to add majuscule new features like iTunes Movie Rentals to give our customers even more grounds to make love iTunes . ”
Last month , Apple establish iTunes Movie Rentals featuring movies from all of the major movie studios admit twentieth Century Fox , The Walt Disney Studios , Warner Bros. , Paramount , Universal Studios Home Entertainment , Sony Pictures Entertainment , Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer ( MGM ) , Lionsgate and New Line Cinema . Users can rent movies and watch them on their microcomputer or Macs , all current generation iPods * * , iPhone ™ and on a widescreen TV with Apple boob tube ® . iTunes Movie Rentals will offer over 1,000 claim by the end of this month , including over 100 titles in arresting eminent definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround strait which users can rent straight off from their widescreen TV using Apple TV .
iTunes 7.6 is uncommitted as a free download at www.itunes.com . iTunes Movie Rentals are available in the US only and are $ 2.99 ( US ) for subroutine library titles and $ 3.99 ( US ) for new releases , and gamy definition versions are price just one dollar more with program library titles at $ 3.99 ( US ) and newfangled releases at $ 4.99 ( US ) . moving-picture show rentals from the iTunes Store for Mac ® or Windows require iTunes 7.6 . iTunes Movie Rentals require a valid deferred payment card with a charge address in the land of purchase .
base on information from market research firm the NPD Group ’s MusicWatch survey that catch consumer describe retiring week unit purchases and counts one CD representing 12 tracks , exclude wireless transaction . The iTunes Music Store became the second - large music retailer in the US after Wal - Mart , based on the amount of music sold during 2007 .
- pic rentals work on iPod classic , iPod nano with video and iPod touch .
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