Re: iTunes saved the Music Industry?


"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What makes you think that all iTunes users own iPods?

Ask Steve Jobs about the flaws you see in his argument.

His argument is flawed. Clearly not every iPod that ever existed is still
in use and clearly some households have multiple iPods.



There are plenty of people who buy songs off of iTunes and burn them to
CDs. He never said that iTunes only accounts for 3% of music sales --
only that 3% of music on IPods is from iTunes.

Now you get to prove how many people use iTunes but not an iPod.

No, if there are any iTunes users not using iPods than the methodology is
bogus.



I don't believe that it is accurate to just divide the number of iPods
ever sold by the number of iTunes songs sold and just magically come up
with that number.

So you say that Steve Jobs was wrong when he used that argument to claim
Apple doesn't dominant music sales.

Yes SJ's methodology wrong. No he never claimed that he dominated music
sells and nor did I.



http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/23/apple-passes-amazon-to-become-the-3-us-music-retailer/

"Things must seem pretty rosy in Cupertino -- just a week before the
mega-hyped launch of you-know-what, market research group NPD's quarterly
survey shows Apple has passed Amazon to become the third biggest music
retailer in the US. This isn't the biggest of surprises, since Steve
himself predicted that the iTunes Store would overtake Amazon at the
Showtime event back in September, but the leap to #3 is a little
unexpected, since Apple also outpaced Target last quarter. iTunes is now
rocking a 10% market share, just behind Wal-Mart at 16% and Best Buy at
14%, and while we don't expect to see it pass those two giants anytime
soon, we'd bet that uptick in DRM-free sales has got the iTMS crew at
Apple licking their chops"

So you disagree that Apple "saved" the music industry.

It might surprise you that some people are capable of analyzing the data and
coming up with an independent thought. The fact is that digital sales are
climbing while physical sales are declining. It's also a fact that Apple
went from nowhere to #3 in four years in market share. Apple has not
"saved" the music industry but is there only bright spot.



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