Over 2^32 Sold! (Nearly)

CUPERTINO, California—February 26, 2008—Apple® today announced that iTunes® (www.itunes.com) is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group*. Apple also announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers. iTunes has sold over four billion songs, …

I really hope they thought ahead and used a 64-bit int for the number_of_songs_sold variable, otherwise some Bad Stuff might happen in the next few months.

(We already know they used an unsigned int, otherwise there would have been a crazy press release a few years ago like “Apple announces iTunes has sold over -2,147,483,648 songs”.)

Previously: Shiver 2 - A new mix CD
Next Post: MacRuby

By
Jens Alfke

On
February 26, 2008
at
9:10 am

As
Humor, Music, Computers

See
2 comments;
Add
your comment