Feuerwizard
April 18th, 2004, 08:19 pm
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On Friday, Apple said the company would not rest until their iTunes Music Store was perfect. The iTunes Music Store in the US has been online for a year. Apple's portable music player - the iPod has seen high increase in sales.
Apple has sold over 800,000 iPods during the Jaunary-March period. Apple claims the sales of its portable audio player has increased by nine times from the previous year. The company is starting to scratch more than a surface in the computing market as the company claims the increase in its computer sales as well.
Now Apple wants to start it's highly popular online music store in Europe as well. Reuters confirmed, "When we launch in Europe, we want to do it well. There can be no compromise on the ease of use, the depth of the catalog or the responsiveness" said Pascal Cagni, Apple's chief in Europe.
According to Cagny, the music store will be delayed by a little while as Apple wants to perfect everything before it launches its music service abroad.
"This is going to be so important for the future that a few months' delay is not essential" says Cagni. When asked if the store was going to be coming out this year without delay, he adds "But it will come. Absolutely"
$0.99 per song, giving the customers a right to download, and burn on the CDs with more than 50 million songs getting bought on the website. iTunes has become the top music site in the United States.
iTunes online store was threatened by software giant Microsoft's MSN music service and multimedia giant Sony's iTunes competitor.
"There are massive differences in price--it can vary with a factor of two, and the taxes in countries are different'' Cagni says. Publishing houses that have done inexplicably hard work to digitize the music portfolios and little rights to negotiate with artists as well as producers and editors have been criticized.
Despite the absence of a music store, Apple Europe saw sales of iPods, which start at 349.00 euros in Europe and $299 in the United States, multiply at almost the same rate as the global average, says Cagni.
British customers in Europe snapped the device up. When the iPod Mini is to be released by Apple in Europe another increase in the sales is expected. "That's one of the big growth opportunities. It offers a new price range, which is important in Europe, where consumers are price sensitive," comments Cagni.
Apple is starting to make it's appearance in the consumer electronics as well as general computing market. With high notes of sales increase seems to be a good step for Apple.
On Friday, Apple said the company would not rest until their iTunes Music Store was perfect. The iTunes Music Store in the US has been online for a year. Apple's portable music player - the iPod has seen high increase in sales.
Apple has sold over 800,000 iPods during the Jaunary-March period. Apple claims the sales of its portable audio player has increased by nine times from the previous year. The company is starting to scratch more than a surface in the computing market as the company claims the increase in its computer sales as well.
Now Apple wants to start it's highly popular online music store in Europe as well. Reuters confirmed, "When we launch in Europe, we want to do it well. There can be no compromise on the ease of use, the depth of the catalog or the responsiveness" said Pascal Cagni, Apple's chief in Europe.
According to Cagny, the music store will be delayed by a little while as Apple wants to perfect everything before it launches its music service abroad.
"This is going to be so important for the future that a few months' delay is not essential" says Cagni. When asked if the store was going to be coming out this year without delay, he adds "But it will come. Absolutely"
$0.99 per song, giving the customers a right to download, and burn on the CDs with more than 50 million songs getting bought on the website. iTunes has become the top music site in the United States.
iTunes online store was threatened by software giant Microsoft's MSN music service and multimedia giant Sony's iTunes competitor.
"There are massive differences in price--it can vary with a factor of two, and the taxes in countries are different'' Cagni says. Publishing houses that have done inexplicably hard work to digitize the music portfolios and little rights to negotiate with artists as well as producers and editors have been criticized.
Despite the absence of a music store, Apple Europe saw sales of iPods, which start at 349.00 euros in Europe and $299 in the United States, multiply at almost the same rate as the global average, says Cagni.
British customers in Europe snapped the device up. When the iPod Mini is to be released by Apple in Europe another increase in the sales is expected. "That's one of the big growth opportunities. It offers a new price range, which is important in Europe, where consumers are price sensitive," comments Cagni.
Apple is starting to make it's appearance in the consumer electronics as well as general computing market. With high notes of sales increase seems to be a good step for Apple.