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Week of 11/14/11 – Tech News Roundup

mdoeff — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:05:35 +0000

Apple and Google made major music announcements this week. Apple finally rolled out iTunes Match and Google made Google Music available to everyone and opened up a Music Store. Amazon started shipping the Kindle Fire.

Google Music

Google Music is open for business (The Official Google Blog)
How To Properly Set Up Google Music (Lifehacker)
Don’t be too disappointed by Google Music’s lackluster debut (TechCrunch)
Google Music Q&A on Quora

The introductory video from Google:

iTunes Match

iTunes Match: Thousands of songs with a couple of hitches (NPR – All Songs Considered Blog)
iTunes Match: What you need to know (Macworld)
Secrets & Features of iTunes Match (iLounge)
Check your music’s iCloud status (Macworld)
How to use iTunes Match with very large libraries (> 25,000 songs) (MacRumors)
iTunes Match Q&A on Quora

iDownloadBlog.com created this iTunes Match Ultimate Walkthrough.

Kindle Fire

Amazon shipped the Kindle Fire earlier this week. Kevin Tofel from GigaOm has a good write-up on the mixed reviews for this product.

Positive reviews:

Kindle Fire review: Yes, it’s that good (MSNBC)
Kindle Fire is no iPad killer but it’s a killer device (Any Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times)
Amazon Kindle Fire Review (Engadget)

Negative reviews:

Is this really the tablet everyone’s talking about? (WIRED)
A human review of the Kindle Fire (Marco.org)

Other news this week

Google’s Lab of Wildest Dreams (a.k.a. Google X) (New York Times)
Google+ Pages can now be managed with 3rd party apps (Mashable)
Netflix to resurrect Arrested Development in 2013 (The Next Web)
Skype desktop app now makes Facebook video calls (CNET)
Facebook employees go nuts as Zuckerberg tells them the IPO is coming (Business Insider)
No one’s noticing Twitter’s ad experiment, which is a good thing (Atlantic Wire)
Amazon KindlePhone for 2012? (All Things D)
How Facebook is ruining sharing (Molly Wood/CNET) and Robert Scoble’s rebuttal: The Facebook Freaky Line

iTunes 3 billion songs purchased on a graph

mdoeff — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:39:35 +0000

It took a little less than a year to go from 1 billion to 2 billion songs sold on iTunes. It took a little over six months to go from 2 billion to 3 billion songs sold. Will we see 4 billion songs sold by the end of the year?

Date	Songs Purchased (millions)	Source
05/15/2003	1	Apple
06/23/2003	5	Apple
09/8/2003	10	Apple
12/15/2003	25	Apple
03/15/2004	50	Apple
07/12/2004	100	CNN
12/16/2004	200	Apple
07/18/2005	500	Apple
02/24/2006	1000	Apple
01/09/2007	2000	Apple
07/31/2007	3000	Apple

Analysis elsewhere:

graph created using NCES Create a Graph

iTunes 2 billion songs purchased on a graph

mdoeff — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:34:43 +0000

Last February, I posted a graph showing the growth of the iTunes music store. Back then the big news was that Apple had sold their one billionth song. Lost in the shuffle of Steve Jobs’ huge announcements at MacWorld yesterday was the news that Apple recently sold their 2 billionth song on iTunes. That’s another billion songs in less than a year. So much for the recent speculation that iTunes sales are slowing. Here’s the updated graph…

Date	Songs Purchased (millions)	Source
05/15/2003	1	Apple
06/23/2003	5	Apple
09/8/2003	10	Apple
12/15/2003	25	Apple
03/15/2004	50	Apple
07/12/2004	100	CNN
12/16/2004	200	Apple
07/18/2005	500	Apple
02/24/2006	1000	Apple
01/09/2007	2000	Apple

graph created using NCES Create a Graph

iTunes Song Purchases plotted on a graph

mdoeff — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:51:00 +0000

Apple recently announced 1 billion songs purchased on iTunes. I dug around the Apple press releases and tracked down some of the major iTunes milestones over the last few years. It’s amazing that there have been 500 million songs purchased since July 2005. That’s 500 million songs purchased in 7 months for an average of 71 million songs purchased per month!

2/26/06 Update:

Additional data point: 850 million on Jan 10, 2006 (announced at Macworld)

Date	Songs Purchased (millions)	Source
05/15/2003	1	Apple
06/23/2003	5	Apple
09/8/2003	10	Apple
12/15/2003	25	Apple
03/15/2004	50	Apple
07/12/2004	100	CNN
12/16/2004	200	Apple
07/17/2005	500	Apple
02/24/2006	1000	Apple

graph created using NCES Create a Graph

Ratings are up for TV shows sold online

mdoeff — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:37:00 +0000

You would think that selling TV shows on iTunes and Google would cause TV ratings to go down. It turns out that the opposite is true. Ratings are up for shows that are now being sold online. NBC’s The Office has seen a jump in the ratings and other networks are seeing similar results for shows that are being sold online.Filed under: Television, iTunes, The Office, TV