Apple Under Scrutiny as Music Competition Rises
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Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O may have sold more than twice as many of its iPod digital music players in its most recent quarter than its signature Mac computers, but
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Apple's chief executive talks up his company's latest products and offers some frank thoughts about his competitors.
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Steve Jobs explains the new iPod lineup, the competitive pressures facing Apple and the potential for angry customers over the iPhone price cut.
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Petition calling on Apple to open its music player to rival tunes becomes target of anti-RealNetworks brickbats.
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again - with a tech rival Thursday, unveiling MSN Music to challenge Apple Computer&#39;s dominant iTunes Music Store. MSN Music debuted with 500,000
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Apple Computer may have sold more than twice as many of its iPod digital music players in its most recent quarter than its signature Mac computers, but competitors
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The launch of the Microsoft digital-music store takes direct aim at Apple Computer's dominant iTunes service, setting off a battle of the bands between the online music sellers and their rock-star frontmen -- Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
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Another mainstream tech columnist has written that Apple must license the iTunes Music Store/iPod, or perish from the wrath of its competitors.
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The company that has given Appleâs iTunes the most competition in song downloading will now compete with it in selling audio books.
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Apple is the undisputed champion of the hard-drive music market, but competitors are gearing up for a shot at the title.
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Apple has done extremely well in the digital music market. They sell the largest number of portable digital music player in the form of iPod and they sell even more songs on their music store iTunes.
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Appleâs chief executive talks up his companyâs latest products and offers some frank thoughts about his competitors.
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The music industry has long hoped  mobile phones will help turn around weak music sales, but music  executives privately fear the most obvious contender, the  iPhone, may give too much clout to Apple Inc. , in  shaping the future of the fledgling mobile music market.
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MacCentral - It wasn't hard to figure out which company was on the minds of most of the attendees at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles Wednesday. Whether representing record labels or online retailers, speakers at the digital music confab couldn't praise Apple enough for the success enjoyed by the company's iTunes Music Store -- that is, when those same speakers weren't predicting the store would soon tumble from its spot at the head of the online music market.
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Digital music players have been hot gifts for a few years but until now, it's been a category mostly dominated by Apple Computer and its line of iPod players.
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A price war in the online music market began yesterday when RealNetworks began an aggressive campaign to challenge industry leader Apple.
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Apple&#8217;s recent introduction of several new iPods shows the company is looking for better profit margins, not gaining market share, according to researcher Gartner. And the move could boost its rivals.