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BIG FAT SMILES has no April Fools for you- not really a tradition here. A quick check on the last two April Fools at BFS showed *embarrassing laughs* no entries posted at all. Ah-huh ah-huh.

I am now lap blogging. Gene just woke up so she isn't too hot yet, thus my lap is not (yet) suffering from being overly roasted.

A more important event today would be that Apple has turned thirty one! My Uncle, a Linux supporter and non-apple fan proclaimed a few weeks before I purchased Gene that Apple will be gone from the computer industry in a decade.

So it's two years down, eight many years to go. And Apple's market share for Macintosh computers have a growth of 66% every quarter and that was at last year's WWDC so who knows how much faster it's growing now. Rumours of iPod killers and their eventual introduction did nothing to dent the iPod's powerful market share which still rides high. 13 out of 20 of Amazon.com's Best Selling MP3 players are iPods though I did not bother to check the actual market share (which at last year's iPod event was at around two thirds of the MP3 market).

iTunes has also sold 2 billion songs, a remarkable achievement for an online music store and more importantly, a legal online music store. In a world where pirates thrive, this achievement is definitely commendable. The iTunes Store is also the 4th best-selling music store in the United States- the others in the top five all being physical stores whilst iTunes is online.

Great job Apple.

Labels: Apple, April Fools, Computers, Macintosh