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Top iTunes spender has spent over $25000 on the store.

Originally posted by: dartworth
Is the keynote being streamed?
Stream

I'm checking text updates elsewhere though, since I can't get the stream here.

Originally posted by: DBL
What are the chances he's located in Indonesia or the Ukraine?
Pretty low, since the store is only currently supported in the US.
 
wow...someone's an idiot. uhh...sorry but seriously, if you spent $25,000 at the itunes store you have serious issues...
SERIOUS issues.
 
Going over Apple/Pepsi promotion. Kicks off during SuperBowl -- Pepsi will be running a SuperBowl ad. [12:49 ET]

Apple adding 12,000 Classical tracks being added iTunes. iTunes is now the largest online music store in the world -- 500,000 songs. [12:48 ET]

As reported first on MacMinute, BillBoard Hot 100 charts being added to iTunes. Available today. [12:47 ET]

iTunes Essentials have done very well. [12:46 ET]

Top spender has spent $25,500 on the iTMS. 50,000 audio books sold on the iTMS to-date and over 100,000 gift certificates. [12:45 ET]

Neilson Soundshare - 70 percent market share of legal downloads. Jobs: "Fells great to get above that 5 percent, doesn't it?" [12:44 ET]

Moves on to iTunes: 30 million songs purchased and downloaded from the iTMS -- Songs per week for Dec. - close to 1.9 million songs a week.
 
The new iLife also includes iPhoto 4, which can handle up to 25,000 photos and also features Rendezvous-based photo sharing, date-based organization, and enhancements for picture auditioning and tweaking. (iPhoto book printing will come to Japan and Europe later this quarter.)

The company has added 12,000 classical tracks, addressing one of the weaknesses of the earlier catalog. Meanwhile, a promotion with Pepsi will start February 1, promising 100 million free songs, delivered as code numbers in one out of three yellow Pepsi bottlecaps. Typing the number into a special location at the iTunes Music Store will provide access to the free download. A new version of iTunes will integrate Billboard charts of hits from 1946 to the present.
 
Garage Band
Returning to the audio innovation that distinguished the original Macintosh, which actually introduced itself to audiences with synthesized speech, Jobs announced the highlight of iLife '04: a fifth application named Garage Band.

Jobs says Garage Band is "a major new pro music tool, but it's for everyone." Citing research that found more than half of all households have at least one current musician, he sees a huge market here.

Garage Band can record, live, up to 64 tracks and features 50 software instruments (playable via USB or MIDI keyboard), 1000 professional audio loops, 200 audio effects and both "vintage and modern" guitar amp simulators.

Other features let you jam along with the system, varying tempo and styles, and building compositions piece by piece, as Jobs demonstrated with the able assistance of talented young musician John Mayer. And then you can drop the music into your iPod.
 
Here it comes:

Apple wants to go after the high-end Flash player market. [13:57 ET]
Jobs wants to talk more about iPod marketshare, specifically "high-end Flash market. [13:57 ET]
 
You could start a Radio station with $20,000 worth of iTunes... 😀 Well, that, plus the $147690543 it costs for a tower and FCC channel.
 
In future news: Apple discovers hole in their online shopping program that allows folks to purchase music without getting billed for it.

 
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