"iTunes users have purchased over one million songs in the first
three and a half days since our launch last Thursday, which
compares with one million songs in the first seven days when we
introduced the original iTunes for Mac users last April," said
Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We're off to a great start, and our
competition isn't even out of the starting gates yet."
However, this is a combined figure for sales to Windows and Mac
users. Apple did not say how many of the one million sales were to
Windows users.
In total, 14 million songs have been purchased and downloaded
since the original iTunes Music Store launch in April. Apple
expects to expand its music catalogue to around 400,000 tracks (at
99 cents each) by the end of October. It expects to launch an
international version of iTunes next year.
