for once, this isn’t just slavish imitation

Daring Fireball: We’ve Never Even Heard of This ‘iTunes Music Store’ of Which You Speak:

I mean, what’s Microsoft supposed to do? Release their new music on Wednesdays?

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Hmm, this would have been a good bit of snark if “New Music Tuesday” wasn’t a staple of commercial radio for the past 10 years or so.

<update> Mr. Gruber was reminded by many correspondents that New Music Tuesday wasn’t Apple’s invention: could MSFT be following a convention, dare we call it a standard? As he points out, the MSN music store is a knock-off of the iTMS, as anyone reading the article in the Seattle Times will realize.

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