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One Million iTunes Songs in Three and Half Days
   Staff     10/20/2003
CUPERTINO, California—October 20, 2003—Apple today announced that Windows users have downloaded more than one million copies of its new iTunes for Windows digital jukebox software in just three and a half days since its launch last Thursday, and over one million songs have been purchased and downloaded by iTunes users in the same period.

Comments: Jobs Talks to Newsweek
   John H. Farr     10/19/2003
Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks to Newsweek's Stephen Levy in the October 27th issue of the magazine on the subject of Apple's music download business, and it's available online here. We applied our "what can we learn from this" filter to the interview and came up with a few tidbits and reactions to share with you.

Apple and AOL Team Up on iTunes
   Staff     10/16/2003
SAN FRANCISCO -- October 16, 2003 -- Apple and America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, today announced an alliance to provide instant, one-click registration to the iTunes Music Store for AOL's more than 25 million U.S. members starting later this quarter. America Online will integrate links to iTunes artists, albums and songs throughout its leading music site, AOL Music, which will give members the option to link directly to the specific iTunes Music Store page to preview and buy music as they browse and read music news and reviews.

100 Million Free iTunes Songs
   Staff     10/16/2003
SAN FRANCISCO -- October 16, 2003 -- Apple and Pepsi-Cola North America today announced a historic promotion to legally give away 100 million free songs to Mac and Windows PC users from Apple's iTunes Music Store.

Audible.com Content Through iTunes
   Staff     10/16/2003
SAN FRANCISCO -- October 16, 2003 -- Audible, Inc. and Apple today announced that more than 20,000 hours of audiobooks and other spoken word programs are now available for download exclusively from Apple's iTunes Music Store. Through iTunes, Mac and Windows customers can preview and download audio editions of best-selling books, magazines, radio programs and original shows, manage audio content alongside their music collection, and take their entire audio library with them for listening anywhere with the market-leading iPod digital music player.

Apple Updates iPod
   Staff     10/16/2003
SAN FRANCISCO -- October 16, 2003 -- Apple today announced a free software update for iPod, the world's most popular portable digital music player. The iPod software update adds support for new Belkin voice recording and photo storage accessories for dockable iPods, allowing users to record hundreds of hours of audio and store thousands of digital photos on their iPod. Available for both Mac and Windows, the iPod software update also includes faster browsing and accessing of large music libraries, the ability to sync On-The-Go playlists back to iTunes® and a new Music Quiz game which tests a player's knowledge of their own iTunes music library.

iTunes for Mac & Windows
   Staff     10/16/2003
SAN FRANCISCO -- October 16, 2003 -- Apple today launched the second generation of its revolutionary iTunes Music Store for both Mac and Windows users. The new iTunes Music Store offers Windows users the same online music store that Mac users love—with the same music catalog, the same personal use rights and the same 99 cents-per-song pricing. Since its launch six months ago, music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 13 million songs from the iTunes Music Store, making it the number one download music service in the world. With music from all five major music companies and over 200 independent music labels, the iTunes Music Store catalog is growing every day and will offer more than 400,000 songs by the end of October.

Comments: Apple Makes Money
   John H. Farr     10/15/2003
Naturally we can't find the link to whatever know-it-all piece we read last week that discussed what this or that analyst predicted for Apple's latest financial results. Also understandably, we alluded to same in the last piece we wrote on the subject, one of many we know absolutely nothing about except for what we read in the digital papers. Poor sales? WHAT poor sales? Idiots.

Apple Special Event to be Broadcast Live via Satellite, and Fourth Quarter Results Reported
   Staff     10/15/2003
Apple Revenues Increase by 19 Percent

Hot Deals, Hot, Hot!
   John H. Farr     10/15/2003
J&R and AudioMIDI don't fool around. There are tons of cool new gadgets and software products for your Mac coming into the virutal warehouses at Apple's Hot Deals site and we're here to tell you all about them. In fact, if we don't tell you, we're not here. But no kidding, this latest batch has plenty of things your editor would love to get his hands on, like this: "GForce M-Tron VST Mellotron simulation software." What the heck IS that?! Doesn't that fire your curiosity? We're ready to buy it just because, and we'll bet it's heavily discounted.

"Apple Music Event" at da Stores
   John H. Farr     10/14/2003
You know it's going to be cool if there's a blackout graphic of a guy with no belly and naked except for a hat. If he's also pictured dancing with an iPod in his hand, you know the Apple music event scheduled for Thursday, October 16, at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time has something to do with portable digital music players and iTunes.

Apple FY 03 4th Quarter Results Due Wednesday
   John H. Farr     10/13/2003
It's that time of year again. An Apple Media Alert informs us that live audio streaming of its FY 03 Fourth Quarter Results Conference Call will be available as usual. But what of the results themselves?

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