Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity, MSNBC.com's books section and The Almost Late Show with Bobby Bones. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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By Omar Gallaga
| Thursday, December 28, 2006, 04:46 PM
AP reports today that Apple’s iTunes music store is back to normal after a slowdown happened earlier this week, presumably because iPod and iTunes gift card recipients swarmed the music service.
This is good news for Apple, which had to fight off reports earlier this year that sales on its legal music downloading store were slipping.
I can report that when I tried to redeem an iTunes gift card earlier this week (thanks, Uncle Rick!), the store was a bit unresponsive and it took a few tries to get to my account. But a few minutes later, everything was fine. And I downloaded a few lengthy podcasts on Tuesday night with no slowdown in download speed.
As one snarky commenter on Slashdot points out, Microsoft has reported no such problems with its Zune music store.
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By bjking
December 29, 2006 9:22 AM | Link to this
Weeeeeel, I guess Microsoft wouldn't have a problem with it's Zune Music Store - nor does it have anywhere near the volume of traffic that the iTunes Store probably has----BY THE WAY, what's a "zune"?