Apple CEO Steve Jobs used a Dell PC at yesterday’s launch event for the Windows version of iTunes at the Moscone West auditorium in San Francisco. He used the system to demo features of iTunes and the iTunes Music Store, which look identical to their Mac counterparts. “I’d like to do something I’ve never done before,” said Jobs.
Read MoreMike Langberg of the Mercury News points out some irony in the upcoming iTunes promotion between Apple and Pepsi: “One afternoon in March 1983, Steve Jobs, the brash 28-year-old founder of Apple Computer, stood on a Manhattan rooftop terrace overlooking the Hudson River.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, the day before Apple launched iTunes for Windows, Dave Fester, Microsoft’s General Manager of the Windows Digital Media Division, said that the Windows platform will be a challenge for Apple. “Unless Apple decides to make radical changes to their service model, a Windows-based version of iTunes will still remain a closed system, where iPod owners cannot access content from other services,” he said.
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