Apple iTunes music sales collapse!

[FelixDeCat]

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/061213/apple_itunes.html?.v=1

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Sales at Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL - News) online music shop iTunes Music Store fell off a cliff in the first six months of 2006, according to a recent survey.

Since January 2006 the number of monthly iTunes transactions has declined 58 percent, while the average size per purchase declined by 17 percent, leading to a 65-percent overall drop in monthly iTunes revenue, U.S. market research group Forrester said in a survey among North American consumers.

"It is too soon to tell if this decline was seasonal or if buyers were reaching their saturation level for digital music," Forrester said in the report that was published to its clients last week, and made available to Reuters on Wednesday.

Ha ha!

I cant believe people actually paid for that.

 

[manly]

O RLY?

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: manly
O RLY?

Oh man, look at that collapse!

 

[Acanthus]

I will buy from itunes when its in a format that competes with what i can just rip from a cd myself.

Itunes is cheaper, but the DRM is annoying and its lower quality than if i just buy the CD and rip it myself.

 

[0roo0roo]

bingo, cd is already inferior to sacd/dvda. why sell even worse ...its just sad value

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
I will buy from itunes when its in a format that competes with what i can just rip from a cd myself.

Itunes is cheaper, but the DRM is annoying and its lower quality than if i just buy the CD and rip it myself.

You don't have to keep the DRM.

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: Acanthus
I will buy from itunes when its in a format that competes with what i can just rip from a cd myself.

Itunes is cheaper, but the DRM is annoying and its lower quality than if i just buy the CD and rip it myself.

You don't have to keep the DRM.

The DRM drives me nuts. I can stream all of my songs except for Itunes songs to my 360. It really pisses me off.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: Acanthus
I will buy from itunes when its in a format that competes with what i can just rip from a cd myself.

Itunes is cheaper, but the DRM is annoying and its lower quality than if i just buy the CD and rip it myself.

You don't have to keep the DRM.

Jack - have any links to keep the DRM off? The ones I know of to "accidently" destroy the DRM only work with iTunes 5 and below...and I've bought a crapload of music on 6 and now 7.

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: Acanthus
I will buy from itunes when its in a format that competes with what i can just rip from a cd myself.

Itunes is cheaper, but the DRM is annoying and its lower quality than if i just buy the CD and rip it myself.

You don't have to keep the DRM.

Jack - have any links to keep the DRM off? The ones I know of to "accidently" destroy the DRM only work with iTunes 5 and below...and I've bought a crapload of music on 6 and now 7.

You have PM. I :heart: iTunes.