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Monday, April 28, 2003 |
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Steve Jobs is interviewed re the iTunes music service in Fortune: "Just watch. We'll have more people using the iTunes Music Store in the first day than Pressplay or MusicNet have even signed up as subscribers--probably in the first hour."
My personal experience with it today is that Apple's servers are so overwhelmed that the vast majority of requests end up with server errors, making the service totally useless. Maybe Jobs was right. More likely the servers just can't handle a reasonable first-day load. We'll see.
Update: as of 7PM EDT, the service is working perfectly for me, and I am presently downloading my first purchase: Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". Always loved the recording, but never wanted to buy a complete Gaye album. Somehow never got around to downloading it off Gnutella.. I expect the iTunes service to replace Gnutella for me as long as it has the song I want is there.
Update 2: With only 200,000 songs in the system, too frequently they aren't there. I was looking for some Phil Ochs material and all they have one one greatest hits collection out of his entire catalogue, most of which is still "in print". |
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