|
Install. Listen. Watch. BUY! (1/17/01)
|
 
|
| | |
Meanwhile, despite the fact that its CD-burning feature is currently only supported on those brand new Power Macs just unveiled last week, iTunes is going great guns. According to an Apple press release first pointed out to us by faithful viewer David Triska, the do-everything "digital hub" audio software was downloaded over 275,000 times in its first week of availability. Obviously Mac fans are pleased with the idea of a free MP3 player and encoder that's got the fabled Apple fit and finish.
275,000 downloads? As David notes, "that's a lot of RDF!" Because as any true AtAT fanatic knows, we proved conclusively in last week's Viewer Mail that iTunes is a thinly-veiled Apple plot to deliver high doses of Steve's infamous Reality Distortion Field energy to as many Mac users as possible. Hint: hide your credit cards before spending any time staring at that trippy iTunes Visualizer-- and for Pete's sake, make sure you don't have 1-Click turned on at the Apple Store, or before you know it you'll be neck-deep in Cubes and high-interest debt.
The plus side, of course, is that with 275,000 iTunes users already on the hook, and the vast majority of those not privy to AtAT's discovery, we're pretty sure we know how Apple plans to turn a profit this quarter. Right at this very second, thousands of unsuspecting Mac users are merrily clicking away at the Apple Store, subconsciously adding thousands of dollars' worth of new gear to their virtual carts, all thanks to the magic of iTunes. Hey, Steve may slip up on occasion, but the man clearly knows how to get a company back on track. Happy shopping, people!
| |
| |
 |
SceneLink (2804)
|  |
 |
|
And Now For A Word From Our Sponsors |
| | | |
|
| |
|
 | | The above scene was taken from the 1/17/01 episode: January 17, 2001: This is it: the moment of truth. Is Apple past the worst of its problems, or are the analysts right to be pessimistic? Meanwhile, rumors fly about the next iMacs to emerge from Apple's labs, and iTunes is number one with a bullet, with over 275,000 downloads in its first week on the 'net...
Other scenes from that episode: 2802: Wall Street Doom & Gloom (1/17/01) Today's the day: Black Wednesday. Or should that be Red Wednesday? Once the markets close, Apple money dude Fred Anderson will get on the horn and announce just how scary Apple's fourth fiscal quarter turned out to be-- and given that Apple has already predicted a loss of up to a quarter of a billion dollars, the analysts in on the conference call are likely going to have red ink spurting out of their headset phones... 2803: The Next Hip Thing In iVille (1/17/01) Okay, so the analysts aren't all that excited about Apple's new hardware. Fair enough. After all, it's all professional-grade equipment, and Apple's big rebound in 1998 came from a consumer revolution: the iMac...
Or view the entire episode as originally broadcast... | |  |
|
|
