With just a little help from me, Apple announced that today it sold its 3 billionth song. From one of my fave blogs ever, Machinist:
Apple announced this morning that it had sold its 3 billionth song on iTunes (for those of you who have trouble doing missing-penny math, the $.99-per-song take on that is $2,970,000,000). As Ars Technica notes, the milestone follows recent news that Apple, which sells about 10 percent of all music in the U.S., is now the third-largest music retailer in the country -- it's ahead of Amazon.com and behind only Wal-Mart and Best Buy.
The catch? Apple makes just about zero pennies from that, letting the music companies have all the cash. They do it so you'll keep buying iPods.
So far it's working, too. Story
here.