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Closing In On One BILLION iTunes Music Store Downloads....And That's Not All...
14 million new iPods were sold over the holidays (3 to my immediate family alone). So far, iTunes counts over 850 million song downloads. At their combined sales rate, Apple should hit the 1 BILLION song download mark by sometime this spring. Who will get credited with THAT historic purchase?
Adding to that news (iPods are selling 3 times faster now than there were a year ago and it's expected to keep getting hotter), it was also announced Apple Computers has begun siphoning customers from the Windows camp. After years of hovering around 3 percent, Apple last year cracked 4 percent of the U.S. PC market. And that was done before the release of the brand-new iMacs and Powerbooks powered by the ultrafast Intel double microprocessors which are 3 times faster than any other PC chip.
The result?
Apple shares leapt to an all-time high on Wednesday, boosted by its decision to unveil 6 months earlier than expected its first two machines with Intel's Core Duo. Here's the most amazing news, despite the impressive new chip processing performance: Apple said it would not thwart users who would seek to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system on the machines. With Intel processors inside the new Macs, their owners could run Microsoft Windows and software designed for it at full speed. So, people will get a choice...they can run a Mac with full Windows usage OR with with regular Mac OS X software.
"Now consumers can buy a Mac that is three times faster and for the same price," said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst with Insight 64 research firm.
Apple shares soared $3.04, or 3.8 percent, to close at a split-adjusted record high of $83.90 on the Nasdaq Stock Market Wednesday. It's increased 10% just in the last month.
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posted by Unknown @ Wednesday, January 11, 2006,
