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However, the iTune figure is very misleading. The thing that needs to be remembered with iTunes is that it has two functions - 1) it's a store, and 2) it's the only reliable tool that one can use to sync music to an iPod. If you own an iPod, you need iTunes. But that doesn't mean that you're actually using the store. A few years back, I bought a Razr V3i while in Europe that required the use of iTunes to sync music to it. That's how iTunes ended up getting installed on my machine. But I've never been an iTunes customer. Many of my friends have iTunes on their Windows machines to sync their iPods, yet only 2 of them actually use the store itself. So you can't use iTunes software downloads as a metric to estimate the size of the iTune store's user base.
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