Apps Bigger Than Music? Of Course

Here are a few reasons I am not surprised by this data. It is interesting, but should not be a surprise. 

1) we have figured out downloading, and so has Apple. It is easier, more mundane to buy an app. 

2) The marketing for apps was more effective

3) Much of the music on MP3 players was owned in other formats, or pirated. 

4) Apps serve more compelling functions than music. 

The curves of the charts are what is interesting. That Apple has created two businesses of this size and growth is astonishing. 

App Store could surpass total iTunes music sales by March
TUAW | JANUARY 17, 2011
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Anyone who has visited the Apple website in the past few days knows that sometime in the very near ...

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