I remember the first day I received my first iPod. It was a blue iPod mini. The screen was black and white, only held about 800 songs, and was the size of a small brick. Apple revolutionized the way this world listens to music with the iPod, making Walkmans irrelevant and other MP3 players subpar by comparison. In today's world, either you have an iPhone that also acts as an iPod, or people have an actual iPod. Apple has changed the game on every technological thing you could think of from phones to televisions and yet it's getting beat in one area. Music sales.
Hard to believe right? The creators of the iPod that changed how the world listens to music, are getting beat at their own game. Back in the day, iTunes was cheap. Each song costs .99 cents and some were even free. Nowadays each song costs 1.29 per song and people just aren't buying them. Why you ask? Because 1.29 for a song is just way too much money.
Many websites have created ways to download songs for free, due to this overprice of music such as Limewire, Frostwire, Spotify, and Soundcloud. You can also search a Youtube video and download the audio from the video and save it as a song on your iTunes library. iTunes is slowly losing its rein over the music industry, and with that may lead to the intense regulation of music downloads to keep Apple afloat because we all know Apple can buy anything they want. Even if that means freedom to download free music.
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