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Wednesday, December 17, 2003

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Apple store tops 25 million tunes: "Apple's online music store hits a new high, having sold more than 25 million songs since its launch in April." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

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A look back: The best of 2003 from Apple Computer: "Columnist Yuval Kossovsky picks the evolutionary -- and revolutionary -- products from Apple in 2003. Some of them may surprise you." [Computerworld News]

Three best products of the year 2003 -- Comment()
Here are my choices for the best products of the year 2003:

Apple iTunes Music Store, which made a revolution in distributing music on the net with reasonable terms
Apple PowerMac G5 dual 2 GHz, which is (arguably) the fastest desktop on Earth, and made 64-bit computing a reality in the workplace
Apple iPod music player for Mac and Windows, which is the leading mp3 player, and forms the leading image of digital lifestyle

Of these, I personally use daily an iPod. I currently have about 17 GB worth of music on the iPod, which is most of my cd collection. Unfortunately, iTMS is not available in Europe. And I don't currently need the G5 speed, my 1 GHz PowerBook works just fine.

Perhaps I should also mention these excellent products, which I use, but which did not make my top-3 list: Apple iSight camera and iChat AV software, and Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).