Movies on iTunes
p2pnet.net News:- “In case you didn’t notice – and I think a lot of people haven’t, actually – Apple has launched a store where you can buy and download music videos. And I think it’s just the start of something that will make the iTunes Music Store look like a trivial first step.”
So says Charles Arthur netimperative.com, going on:
“It’s been easy to overlook. An update to the iTunes program a week or so ago, which the company itself didn’t even press release, now means that it can play Quicktime videos.:
The story doesn’t say if iTunes video are locked up tight in the same way its music downloads are, but, “I think it wants to have plenty of content before it really makes a noise about this,” adds Arthur.
“Steve Jobs likes his messages to make a big splash.”
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netimperative.com - Apple aims for music videos, May 20, 2005
May 21st, 2005 at 6:40 pm
This isn’t anything new. In fact this is really “old” news. Music videos have been available to watch within the iTunes music store since a short time after the iTunes music store was launched, well atleast before iTunes for windows has been released. If you notice, Quicktime is included with iTunes for windows. A few months ago apple added in movie trailers to the iTunes music store as well.
May 22nd, 2005 at 11:45 am
The first hints came with the release of os X.4 “tiger”.
Quicktime 7 has this very obvious preference window for “media keys”.
It will be locked down, and of course apple thinks people are dumb enough to actually want to purchase the crap (just because a few idiots buy into their itunes crap). As a loyal apple user i say Think Again.
May 22nd, 2005 at 4:28 pm
Oh dear. Now Hillary Rosen will have something else to complain about.
May 24th, 2005 at 6:42 pm
“a few idiots”
Nearly 500 million iTunes have been sold to date. Your concept of “a few” is somewhere between three and a half billion? Yikes! (You’re not a public school math teacher by any chance?)