iTunes stuck hard because of overloading

Traffic to iTunes during the past Christmas season has soared so rapidly that the digital music service is nearly jammed. It took more than 20 minutes to download a single song.

Beginning two days ago and yesterday, the iTunes technical support forum spends messages asking for " emergency help ", reporting bugs and complaining that they cannot access the service. Others received a message saying the system could not handle the request for music and video downloads.

Source: AP It is still unclear how many customers are affected by this congestion, and Apple has not yet made any comments about the cause and incident that has been overcome. Analysts say this is an inevitable consequence of too many people getting iPods and buying iTunes music as a gift for Christmas.

According to Hitwise, the number of visitors to the iTunes website during the Christmas holidays was "terrible", 4 times higher than the same period last year.

Ignoring the inconveniences that the problem caused to consumers, investors saw this as a positive signal: It seems that the demand has been unexpectedly high for Apple, and it guarantees Apple. an extremely successful fiscal quarter.

" What does this incident say? That iPod is truly amazing. It is undoubtedly the most popular present, " Jupiter Research vice president said.

Apple currently controls about 75% of the download market share, but in 2007, it could lose up to 5% of the market share by the emergence of many rival services.

Trong Cam