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Wal-Mart sticks to its guns (no, not those guns)
Wal-Mart’s recent abandonment of WMA format for their download store shows that they do indeed know what they’re doing and can respond to the emerging market in a fairly savvy fashion. Some of the majors still aren’t on board — which is pretty odd, given that they’re participating in Amazon’s MP3 store — and Wal-Mart [...]
Apple eats others
An internal memo at Apple which was just intercepted by Ars Technica congratulates employees on having successfully swiped the #1 spot in music retail from Wal-Mart. This announcement comes barely a month after they announced that they had moved up to #2, suggesting a dramatic growth rate. This is a coup of sorts in that [...]
iTunes hits a new milestone (and now there’s only one left)
In a press release issued earlier today, Apple announced that the iTunes Music Store is now the second-largest music retailer in the country. This isn’t entirely surprising — pretty much everyone was shocked back in 2005 in a fairly similar manner when it was revealed that iTunes was beating Tower Records. All reports since then [...]
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