“The future of music is streaming, not downloads,” Peter Kafka reports for Recode. “But that doesn’t mean Apple, the company that essentially invented the market for music download sales, is going to stop selling downloads anytime soon.”
“That’s contrary to a report today that said Apple planned to stop selling downloads in two years — or, alternately, ‘the next 3-4 years,'” Kafka reports. ‘Not true,’ said Apple rep Tom Neumayr.”
Kafka reports, “Neumayr wouldn’t expand on that comment, except to make it clear that he was responding to both timelines proposed in today’s story from Digital Music News.”
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MacDailyNews Take: So, in five years then? 😉
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