iTunes downloads top 50 million

[Doctor Q]

I'm impressed! Good for BBC UK for unslanting their article!

 

[frankly]

Unless they are in the game soon, there will be missed markets. Virgin's making noises, and there is the Peter Gabriel Coke thing (which isn't doing well yet) but Apple needs to get European and Asia mind-share asap, as well as, of course, for our friends down under.

I know that it's not necessarily their fault, but if it means doing it in Europe country by country (they'll be different language versions anyway) then do it. The UK is a vast market, dying for this. I suspect Steve does have a mantra here about all of Europe at once, but Steve, look mate, it took about 10 years to agree on the next 10 countries to join the EU, so win the war step by step, once UK or somewhere is successful the record industry will once again be falling over themselves to find ways round the release dates/licensing laws...

Where there's a will....

Which is another good reason for Apple to not use .wma because the iPod is the biggest seller in the UK and in Japan. So, when Apple does open the iTMS in those countries they will have all of those iPod users in place already.

Later, Frank