I'm surprised Apple's music store sold one million songs to Mac users in its first week. At 99 cents per track, I don't see why consumers prefer it over the free alternatives found on P2P networks.
Apple’s music store sold over 1 million songs in a week. To Mac users alone. At 99c (Rs 50) a song, I don’t see how that happened. Or why it’s better than P2P. via MetaFilter
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