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iTunes dominates online US music sales [Chart]
With over 25% of purchased music in the US coming from iTunes, it’s hard to imagine iTunes’ market share taking a significant hit anytime soon. As services like Rhapsody and Napster continue to flounder, Amazon is probably best positioned to actually make some inroads against Apple. But as the chart below shows, Apple probably doesn’t […]
Continue reading...Apple mistakenly releases “Mad Men” episode two weeks early on iTunes
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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Last night, Apple mistakenly released the third episode of “Mad Men” two weeks ahead of schedule. The episode, which has since been removed, appears to have been available exclusively to iTunes season pass subscribers. Commenting on the matter, AMC released the following statement: The third episode of ‘Mad Men’s new season was made available prematurely […]
Continue reading...Apple planning special music themed media event in early September
Thursday, August 13, 2009
A number of music industry sources have confirmed that Apple is planning a special music-themed media event this September, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. According to Peter Kafka, Apple will use the week of September 7th to announce a range of new upgrades to the iPod line. Rumor has it that […]
Continue reading...Apple emerges victorious in iTunes/iPod class action lawsuit
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Apple recently emerged victorious in a legal case alleging that Apple illegally configured iTunes to work exclusively with iPods and not with third party MP3 players. The Plaintiff in the case, Stacie Somers, was seeking class-action status, a motion which was denied by U.S. District Judge James Ware on account that Somers failed to prove […]
Continue reading...DVD Jon issued subpeona in Apple iPod anti-trust case
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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DVD Jon, a.k.a Jon Lech Johansen, is essentially a DRM slayer. If he had his own 80’s sitcom, the intro might go something like this – “If you have a file, and it has DRM, and no one else can help you, then maybe you can hire.. DVD Jon.” And now cue The A-Team music. […]
Continue reading...Leaked screenshots of iTunes 9?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Here are some supposed screenshots of iTunes 9 posted by Tobias Bischoff. Note the Last.Fm integration in the sidebar along with the “Social” category under the Playlist heading.
Continue reading...Apple working on social media application for iTunes?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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Hot on the heels of a news report that iTunes 9 will support Blu-Ray and include Twitter and other types of social media integration comes news from Boy Genius Report that Apple might be working on a completely new social media application that would “consolidate all your social networking services.” According to the report, iTunes […]
Continue reading...Deconstructing Jason Calacanis’ “Case against Apple” article piece by piece
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Jason Calacanis, of Mahalo, Weblogs, and TWIT fame, recently penned an article titled “The Case against Apple in 5 parts” where he details why his long love affair with Apple is coming to an end. From what I’ve seen and heard of Calacanis, he seems like an alright guy, but much of the reasoning in […]
Continue reading...iTunes 9 rumored to include Blu-Ray support and iPhone app re-organization
Saturday, August 8, 2009
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Hot on the heels of a report that the next iMac refresh will include 2 compelling new features, comes news that iTunes 9 will at long last include support for Blu-Ray video. Citing a reliable source, Boy Genius Report writes that in addition to Blu-Ray support, iTunes 9 will also enable users to “visually organize […]
Continue reading...Wall Street Rumor: Apple planning to take on PayPal with iTunes pay service
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Silicon Alley Insider reports, citing Wall Street gossip, that Apple is toying around with the idea of taking on PayPal by implementing a system whereby iTunes users could purchase items via their credit card enabled iTunes accounts.
Continue reading...The iPhone/App store puts iPod/iTunes growth to shame [Graphs]
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Chi-Hua Chien of KPCB, the venture capital firm behind the $100 Million iFund initiative, came up with some interesting graphs which illustrate how much more quickly the rate of growth has been for the iPhone and the iTunes App Store compared to the iPod and iTunes Music Store. The differences are staggering. Kleiner Perkins iFund […]
Continue reading...How the latest Palm Pre update syncs with iTunes
Monday, August 3, 2009
A few weeks ago, Apple released an iTunes update which prevented the Palm Pre from syncing up with iTunes. Shortly thereafter, Palm responded with an update of its own with the release of webOS 1.1, an update which re-enabled the ability of the Pre to sync up with and transfer media files from iTunes. In […]
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
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