Apple's Music Download Service

[Kyle Fenton]

I am impressed with the store too, but even though I like Apple and the Macintosh very much, I don't think it is going to have much overall impact because

1. People under 18 don't have credit cards, and I don't think that some parents would allow them to buy music, especially the ones with vulgar language, the teenage group I say is at least 50% of the music industry customers.

2. As long as Kazza is alive, people will probably download for free. I think it might have a impact on the Mac community, because all the P2P services are absolutely horrible. But the PC community is something else.

I know that some songs are not available yet, it is because Apple wants to do it right. They have to go to original recording and rip it into 128 AAC, so it can achieve the best quality. They will start with the most recent songs and move down to really old songs that is very hard to find. I would say to give it a month, and all the music should be there.

It is rumored by Forbes magazine that the Windows Version of iTunes might be the standard AOL jukebox in future versions.