The iTunes Music Store, launched by Apple on April 28, 2003, marked a pivotal moment in the history of digital media. Conceived at a time when music piracy through platforms like Napster ran rampant, ...

On April 28th, the iTunes Store basked in a milestone 10th birthday. Two years before its 2003 launch (as the iTunes Music Store), Apple introduced the iTunes client as a desktop music management ...

Ten years ago this month, a music sector ravaged by Napster and largely ignorant of digital distribution found a savior of sorts in what was then called the iTunes Music Store. With its 99-cent ...

Given its stature today, it’s sometimes easy to forget that the iTunes Store launched ten years ago with just a fairly small selection of music. In the intervening time, Apple has added TV shows, ...

On April 28, 2003, in San Francisco, Steve Jobs raised the curtain on the iTunes Music Store and, as we journalists like to do, I gazed into my crystal ball in an attempt to explain the broad, ...

On Wednesday Apple’s iTunes Store served its 10 billionth music download, according to the company. Here’s a look at notable moments in its history: April 28, 2003 – Apple launched the iTunes Music ...

Here is a surprise: at its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that Apple’s iTunes will come to the Windows Store by the end of the year. The iTunes app will have full iPhone support ...

As I write this paragraph, I’m enjoying a playlist that I created from among the thousands of songs on my iPhone, and it’s no big deal. It wasn’t always so simple: Once upon a time, crafting the ...

Apple's iTunes Store turns 10 years old this weekend. CNET breaks down some of the key moments along the way. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about ...