> How many people stopped pirating when Apple made it extremely easy to buy music for $1?
I can't think of any that stopped honestly or even owned an Apple product. Apple products are expensive.
I can't think of any that stopped honestly or even owned an Apple product. Apple products are expensive.
If you wanted just that one song then iTunes was very much the most affordable, and accessible, way to legally buy digital music back then because it only charged you $1 for a song.
The only other alternatives where, often legally rather obscure, flatrate subscription models or buying the physical full album, which would usually have cost you at least $20+
Valve did something very similar with Steam: Very easy to use and it actually passed on the savings from digital distribution to the consumers by heavily discounting the prices of games.
I wish buying movies was this easy.
I wasn't aware that iTunes offered downloads via a website back then, because iTunes certainly does not run on the OS which the people that I'm thinking of used at the time (and still doesn't).