By Ina Fried, 21 October 2003 09:15
NEWS More than a million Windows users have downloaded iTunes since its introduction, and sent Apple's song sales skyrocketing.
Apple said on Monday that one million copies of its iTunes software for Windows have been downloaded since its introduction on Thursday.
The company also said it has sold more than one million songs in that same time, a significant increase from the typical rate of 500,000 or 600,000 songs the company had been selling in recent weeks. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement: "We're off to a great start, and our competition isn't even out of the starting gates yet."
Apple executives said before the weekend the pace of downloads had been brisk, but the company did not quantify the number of copies of the software that had been downloaded. Jobs introduced the software on Thursday at a star-studded event in San Francisco, featuring Bono and Mick Jagger.
Response to the software has been mixed, with the company garnering a lot of praise, particularly from users of the Mac version of the software who are now using it on both Macs and PCs. However, there have also been complaints from consumers, such as problems running the software when using Windows 2000 Professional.
Apple said it is looking into the problems, which have caused some machines to freeze after iTunes is installed.
Ina Fried writes for News.com
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1. anonymous
Why is everyone doing a song and dance about this in the UK - e.g. Silicon.com and the BBC. Despite the huge download / install etc. the actual service isn't even available in the UK yet - with seemingly no information as to when it will be.
This basically makes this a bloated media player. Am I missing something?
2. Adam Carden
I would like to point out that I installed iTunes for windows last week only to be greeted by a message saying I could not purchase music in my part of the world (the uk, system set to uk too, using telewest - uk isp).
After using the jukebox feature I fell frankly there are better music players out there. iTunes is probably the best music store or would be if you could buy music in the uk.