The last Macworld ever was held yesterday and Apple made many announcements about updates with their software, but probably the most exciting news was their iTunes update.
iTunes, which is the world's largest and best-selling music library, has sold over 6 billion songs since it opened in April of 2003. Since then, songs went for .99 cents a piece, but now Apple is introducing new pricing tiers this April: $.69, $.99, and $1.29. It was also announced that most songs will be priced for $.69.
The next announcement was an iTunes update called iTunes Plus. What does this mean? Brace yourself... DRM FREE MUSIC! Starting today with a partnership including all of the major record labels, Apple will offer 8 million songs DRM free and will be adding 2 million by the end of the quarter, totaling to 10+ million songs that will be DRM free.
The last bit of info will be refreshing to all iPhone users (hehe)! It's been annoying that I can't buy music off on iTunes on my iPhone unless I am connected to an area WIFI because most of the time I am on the Edge network. No fancy 3G for me:( But not anymore! Starting today, iPhone and iPod Touch users will be able to preview and download music on iTunes using WIFI and 3G networks.
These are some impressive announcements for iTunes, making it much more appealing to download music legally, but it still bears the question. Are you still going to bootleg your music?
1 comment:
I'm still going to not use Apple's products.
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