Apple lowers prices to 99c per song
Apple is lowering the prices of songs it sells online without copy protection to 99 cents from $1.29, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. The reduction, which started appearing on songs Tuesday, puts the company’s iTunes store closer in line with its rivals. Amazon, which opened its online music store in September, sells tracks without anticopying software locks for 89 cents to 99 cents. Separately, Apple announced that its next-generation operating system, the Mac OS X Leopard, would be available Oct. 26 for $129, and Apple’s online store was taking orders.
An Apple spokeswoman, Natalie Kerris, said the price cut at iTunes was not in response to competition. “It’s been very popular with our customers, and we’re now making it available at an even more affordable price,” Ms. Kerris said. Apple began selling some songs in May without copy protection. The primary benefit of such music is that it can be played on any music player, not just Apple iPods. Apple also charges 99 cents for copy-protected tracks. Leopard, the new operating system, was originally due in June, but Apple said in April that it needed to divert resources so it could introduce the iPhone on time. It’s a nice message for those people who still haven’t found the miracle of warez, but the rest of us will probably still rely on their favourite p2p application.
Source: NY Times
Comments(7)
YO MARTIN
anything new on Football Manager 08, the football game of all time?
and yeah, its football, because u kick it with ur feet, and has the shape of a BALL, eurostyle.
the way this post switched from the 99c itunes tracks to MacOSX Leopard is quite confusing, what has one got to do with the other
This post is all messed up, anyways there is a timer on apple website with the release date of leopard, i think its a good price tag of 139 euros for the best overall OS around, i only boot windows when i want to play some games wich are few.
So… ah… who’s buying?… anyone ?!
@4
Probably the rich-’who skank us poor sods to death’-gits probably will. And I’m jealous as hell.
@ #1 martinms
No one cares about Football Manager, moron.
Grow up already and stop with your dumb baby games.
WoW songs are for a buck I should stop downloading them for free because… well I forgot. Ah well carry on.