You advised of, I've hunger maintained that the most astonishing possibility a affairs Apple has pulled gone from of its hat isn't any of its lovely desktop or laptop computers, not it's operating system, not any of the nonstop stream of iPods, not the Apple Stores, and not the iPhone.

It's iTunes.  'Twas announced today that iTunes is moment the #2 music retailer in the world.  (Behind Wal-Mart.  Which sucks, because I'm ready after iTunes to be #1.  Wal-Mart carries a crappy, smooth, force-fed excerpt of music commandeer only for fans of top 40, appear, and sticks-western music. No, no, and no.)  iTunes liking pass Wal-Mart eventually.

iTunes is the indication.  These iPods would be nothing without iTunes.  Apple stores are charming, but they are still stores, and we have lots of those.  Their computers are loved, and the operating system works incomparable -- Mac operating share has, after all, skyrocketed to a thumping 8%, remember?!  And the iPhone?  graciously, super cool.  roar me when it works on every mobile carrier.

But to me iTunes is where it's at.  I still animosity the DRM restrictions, and they must at the end of the day go away.  Not because I want to filch from artists, but because my iPod persistently move failed so profuse times (I differentiate, I've said this before), and because I've switched computers a combine times, I gone access to bunch of MY songs.  Songs I bought.  On iTunes.

iTunes is skylarking jokingly to shop.  It's simple.  My mom and my son both skilled in how to use iTunes. The extract is .  I evaluate Amazon might have the capacity to devote them a go over, but if they in all cases catch up it see fit take actually awhile.  And by then iTunes will be well-established and quiet in a good place.

So congratulations, Apple, on the continued success of iTunes.  It doesn't keep breaking on me, it keeps me coming master b crush, it's oft-imitated up till not yet matched.  Is that honestly so hard?