apple.com - 1/16/2009
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iTunes Music Store Images CUPERTINO, California—July 18, 2005—Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than half a billion songs from the iTunes® Music Store. The 500 millionth song, Faith Hill’s “Mississippi Girl,” was purchased yesterday by Amy Greer from ...
bloomberg.com - 1/15/2009
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Apple’s Cook Pushes Staff in Lieu of Jobs’s
Magic (Update1) By Dina Bass and Connie Guglielmo Jan....
15 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. founder and Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is prone to fits of passion, table pounding and screaming. Tim Cook , who ...
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scobleizer.com - 1/14/2009
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It’s too late to sell your Apple stock.
If you sold it today, you are a genius....
But tomorrow? You’ll be the biggest loser. Why? Apple has the best team, the best distribution, the best supply chain, the best management in the business. ...
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You are an idiot if you sell your Apple stock tomorrow
valleywag.gawker.com - 1/14/2009
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CNBC's website is reporting that Steve Jobs ,
Apple's heroic CEO, is taking a six-month leave of...
absence to deal with his declining health. It is the best thing for Jobs. And for Apple. Jobs has battled pancreatic cancer and its aftereffects since ...
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Steve Jobs Takes 'Medical Leave' from Apple
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App Store hits 500 million downloads: thanks, iFart
Engadget —
... side project Apple has going on sure doesn't seem to be settling down. After launching in July of '08 and hitting 100 million downloads in September, the App Store has just crossed the 500 million download mark -- a mere six months after opening. Compare that to the iTunes Music Store, which took two whole years to cross the 500 million mark, though to be fair we have little idea of the paid to free ratio of app downloads. There are over 15,000 apps in the App Store currently, and sure, 14,500 of them are crap, with the rest being tip calculators, but we gotta hand it to Apple ...
App Store hits 500 million downloads: thanks, iFart
Engadget Mobile —
... side project Apple has going on sure doesn't seem to be settling down. After launching in July of '08 and hitting 100 million downloads in September, the App Store has just crossed the 500 million download mark -- a mere six months after opening. Compare that to the iTunes Music Store, which took two whole years to cross the 500 million mark, though to be fair we have little idea of the paid to free ratio of app downloads. There are over 15,000 apps in the App Store currently, and sure, 14,500 of them are crap, with the rest being tip calculators, but we gotta hand it to Apple ...
The quickening: Apple App Store hits a half billion downloads
VentureBeat —
... When Apple launched its iTunes Store in April 2003, it took them over two years to reach 500 million songs downloaded. The App Store — a sub-section of the iTunes Store — has reached that mark in under 200 days. ...
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iPhone App Store has served 500 million Downloads —
I4U News 1/16/2009
Apple unveiled today that the iPhone App Store has now cracked the 500 million download milestone.
iPhone and iPod touch users can currently choose between 15,000 Apps on the App Store.
500 million is a pretty amazing number. There are of ...
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