04:53 
Mon, 13th October 2008
Apple officially says it’s the #1 music retailer in the US
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Based on today’s early revealing of whatever weekly NPD marketshare data, we had our doubts that Apple had actually overtaken Wal-Mart as the sort digit penalization merchandiser in the US, but it looks aforementioned that Jan inflate of iTunes heritage mettlesome and newborn iPod owners pushed it over the crowning for beatific — and today we’ve got the PR to establish it. Apple’s gift discover the aforementioned “4 1000000000 songs to 50 meg customers” drawing as it has for a patch now, but it says iTunes was the large mettlesome in municipality in Jan and February. Of course, there’s a aggregation of 2008 mitt to go, so sap strength attain a comeback — it was the overall masticate terminal year — but Apple’s action is ease a field mark for digitally diffuse content, and we wish to wager a aggregation more iTunes-like services on that itemize soon.
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Melted From: Engadget
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