June 25th, 2008

Steve Jobs’s ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

This time somehow he has applied his talents in getting a better licensing deal than anyone else has gotten for music.

2003 email from Bill Gates about the then-just-launched iTunes Music Store, via Daring Fireball. Click through for the entire message.

Gruber with the most important point of all:

Five years later, the iTunes Store has sold five billion songs, and Microsoft still doesn’t have an answer.

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