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How strong a competitor will a new iTunes streaming music service embedded within Apple's popular iOS operating system be? Very strong, according to a survey of 1000 consumers.
UPDATE: Apple blamed an internal server error for the widespread outage of its iTunes and App stores that impacted customers worldwide yesterday. The problems appear to have been fixed.
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