Cannes isn’t just the place where they show a bunch of films your girlfriend makes you see while you’re waiting for the next movie starring The Rock. It also hosts the Midem international music fair, where the hot topic was, surprise surprise, digital music downloads.
And if you’re talking about digital music, you’re talking about iTunes.
The Mail and Guardian has some interesting tidbits that Apple’s applications and internet service vice-president Eddy Cue revealed, including the fact that 95% of the iTunes catalog has been downloaded at least once.
However, despite the fact that Apple has a.) the most popular download service and b.) the most popular music player, Chris Gorog, CEO of Roxio (who own the Napster 2 download service), warned delegates to “stay off the Apple platform.” Why? Because Windows devices are more popular.
Seriously.
- Gorog tried to convince music execs they should make their record catalogues available on Napster with claims that its Windows-based PC platform is compatible with two-thirds of all the mobile music devices currently available.
It’s not clear whether Gorog’s Jedi mind-trick worked, or if the delegates were able to figure out that while there might be more WMA players available vs. the number of iPods, more people are buying the latter, which actually makes the iPod more popular.
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