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Listen to the Earnings Call Here: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq310/

They stated the NC datacenter will be completed and operating by the end of the year. Streaming iTunes could be announced before we know it.

I found the "halo" effect they described particularly interesting. Data has shown, customers buying an iPhone as their first apple product come back and buy more Apple products. They are now seeing this trend in the iPad as well...

Furthermore, they can't make the iphone4/ipad fast enough. The demand streams are simply insane and unlike any other products available today.

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They should call it the all-my-shit-is-locked-into-iTunes effect.

Which shit would that be? Video? That's a pretty small part of iTunes overall revenue... And even that plays just fine on Windows computers.

Are you also one of those people who believes iPods can only play music purchased from the iTunes store?

But the reverse is true. If you bought music from iTunes you can't play it elsewhere.

Since iTunes are a convenient way to purchase music, some of us ended up with large quantities of music tied to Apple's devices.

You know, I can't remember the last time I bought a DRM track from iTunes, and trust me, I buy a lot of tracks on iTunes.

Both the Wii and DSi can play the format iTunes currently uses. I think the PSP and PS3 can as well. I’m also pretty sure Archos and a couple other of the high end media players also work with AAC. AFAIK, only the low end stuff, like SanDisk’s fare, are still using silicon tied to MP3/WMA.

Isn't AAC an open standard?

Yes, although the silicon was slow coming. For a while, the iPod was the only game in town. The few other devices that used AAC at the time (like a Sony 8cm CD player I used to use) used the older MP3 style container instead of the modern MOV/M4A wrapper.

All the iTunes tracks I've bought this year are unprotected.

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