Apple Computer Inc. annunciate Friday that the U.S. version of its iTunes Music Store now accepts payments through PayPal , the popular electronic payment service possess by eBay . With PayPal , exploiter can pay for their iTunes downloads using a “ virtual pocketbook ” that ’s link to a credit card , bank account or stored story balance . Apple also announced that the first 500,000 customers to open a new iTunes account using PayPal as their payment method acting before March 31 , 2005 will receive five complimentary songs .
“ It wee-wee sense for Apple and PayPal to exercise together , ” PayPal spokesperson Sara Bettencourt tell MacCentral . “ We have a huge residential district of user accounts — 56 million worldwide . It ’s really exciting for us because Apple and the iTunes Music Store have become such a big brand in the medicine business . ”
Apple is the second major online music download service of process to strike a pot with PayPal , according to Bettencourt . before this year , iTunes contender Napster also began to accept PayPal . Bettencourt assign these movement partially to a change in the way PayPal does business .
“ Last December we announced Modern pricing for ‘ micropayments , ’ and that was a braggy business deal for the music industry , ” she explained .
The deal announced today only cater U.S. iTunes Music Store customers with the power to apply PayPal to pay for their vocal ; PayPal ’s Bettencourt could not annotate on plans to make the armed service available in iTunes Music Stores operating in other countries , and an Apple spokesman was not immediately uncommitted for gossip .
