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How do you like them Apples?
In case you’ve been living in a cave as of late, Apple computers, ipods, iphones, etc have been killing it. Sales have dramatically increased even through this recession. The latest numbers are now out and Apple is now one of the top 5 companies in the world in terms of market capitalization. Their market cap [...]
Apple Purchases Lala
Apple just purchased lala, which places it in better contention for cloud computing. See here for the full story – http://digitalmusicnews.com/stories/120609lala Stay tuned,ErikFollow me on Twitter
Apple Income: 8 Billion & Counting
Kudos to Apple and its iTunes store that just hit 8 billion song downloads. That’s 8 billion in 6 years. They are now averaging more than 2 billion song sales per year. Apple takes roughly 30% of each song sale. That’s $2.4 billion in sales. Not bad when the rest of the record industry is [...]
Apple’s App Store
Over 1.5 billion applications (apps) have now been downloaded for the Apple iPhone & iTouch. All that in about a year. And it was just about a month ago when that number was 1 billion apps. The rapid sales of the new 3GS phone have played a large part in this amazing increase. Over 40 [...]
Apple App Store
Apple now has more than 50,000 apps available in the app store. All this in well under 2 years. It has come to the point where if I think about something the iPhone should be able to do, I go to the app store and find an app designed for my need. Additionally, most companies [...]
The iPhone App
Apple is about to pass an important mark of having over 1 billion downloads for the iPhone. Apple opened up its Application store last year for developers to write programs that could work on the iPhone. Since that time, Apple has had over 950 million of these applications downloaded. Many of the applications are free, [...]
iTunes DRM-Free
The number one digital music retailer, Apple’s iTunes, just announced that all songs by the major labels will now come DRM-free. DRM is Digital Rights Management. In the past, this meant that if you purchased a song on iTunes, you could only use it on an Apple device, such as the ipod or iphone. Without [...]
Apple & Microsoft Sales
Both Apple & Microsoft released some sales numbers recently that show some shifts occurring in the music & technology industries. First is Apple’s robust sales of 6.9 million iPhone units in the first quarter of the product’s availability. That is more units sold than the first generation iPhone, and that is just in the first [...]
