"Eduardo H. "Eddy" Cue" is Apple Inc./Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services and reports to CEO Tim Cook. He played a role in setting up the Apple Store (online)/Apple online store in 1998, the iTunes Music Store in 2003 and the App Store in 2008. In November 2012, he took charge of map software and Siri (software)/Siri. Cue joined Ferrari's Board of Directors in November 2012. He is a graduate of Duke University. He testified in court about the Apple eBook price conspiracy.

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If we give customers a better alternative they will pay, and certainly that has been the case in places like the US and UK.

It is certainly our belief that digital music buying is the future of music purchasing. Certainly our customers love it, and you can see it in the younger generation. They buy a lot of music now, and they buy it all online. That is what they know music as. They certainly do not know music as a record or as a CD--they know it as digital bandwidth.

I think this is the best launch in terms of content of all the countries we've done.

This is by far the best launch we've done with local repertoire.

If you buy a song, you own it.

We've gained a lot of credibility in the industry in the past 2 1/2 years with what we did with songs. And that's what we're trying to mirror in the video space.

We've worked closely with Motorola to deliver the world's best music experience on a mobile phone. We're also thrilled to be working with some of the largest wireless carriers in the world to bring this pioneering phone to market.

We are about 5 per cent of the music market in the US but there is no doubt in my mind that digital music is the future.

So the fact that we've already done two times that in the first four days is something that we are very, very pleased with.