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Feedback: Tumble dryer in the groove

29 May 2013

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Tumble dryer in the groove

THINKING of downloading some music, Neill Jones logged on to Apple’s iTunes a couple of weeks ago. He was surprised to see that Apple’s App Store was about to reach 50 billion downloads.

He was also puzzled. Given that roughly 2.5 billion – about 35 per cent – of the world’s population has internet access, Neill wondered who else could be downloading that many apps – apart from the not inconsiderable number of people who have downloaded…

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