Apple introduces iPod-purchasing interface into iTunes


A new fea­ture to the iTunes Music Store is users’ abil­ity to pur­chase an iPod com­pletely through iTunes. Why is this impor­tant? Sev­eral inter­net crit­ics have spec­u­lated that the iTMS browser is the future of the inter­net: easy-to-use, sim­ple, and graph­i­cally pleas­ing. This is one more step towards mak­ing iTMS a web browser.


Agreed. I’ve been think­ing about this for some time. We need an iTunes Soft­ware Store, iTunes Ama­zon Store, iTunes eBay Store, and so on, and so on. This inter­face works because of the trick of the eye — you don’t believe you’re online when you’re in it. The metaphore of your iTunes library allows you to be in the sale with­out know­ing it — just click on an artist in your library and POOF, you can buy more just like that.


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