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Title: Apple's App Store: 'The insidious march of a disruptor' Post by: HCK on January 09, 2014, 02:00:03 pm Apple's App Store: 'The insidious march of a disruptor'
Music downloads are down. Apps are through the roof. Should Hollywood be worried? <p>FORTUNE -- Asymco's Horace Dediu, who created the attached chart from data Apple (AAPL) released Tuesday, doesn't buy the accepted wisdom about what's going on.</p> <p>To state the obvious: iTunes music downloads are down while downloads of apps are up sharply: 35% year over year and 50% in December alone.</p> <p>It's tempting to suggest, Dediu writes in a post called MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/08/apple-apps-hollywood-dediu/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=130926&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/408qwCyKj6I" height="1" width="1"/> Source: Apple's App Store: 'The insidious march of a disruptor' (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~3/408qwCyKj6I/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/08/apple-apps-hollywood-dediu/#commentshttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/08/apple-apps-hollywood-dediu/feed/atom/) |