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Don’t expect an iTunes streaming or subscription announcement tomorrow
With Apple’s cryptic iTunes announcement just hours away, no one, not even John Gruber, seems to have an idea as to what trick Apple has up its sleeve. One of the more popular theories that made the rounds earlier today centered on Apple announcing a cloud-based streaming service that would lets users access their iTunes […]
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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Well it appears there’s a big iTunes announcement in the works. If you visit Apple’s homepage, you’ll be greeted with a message teasing a big iTunes announcment that “you’ll never forget.” Might this have something related to streaming data from the cloud, or perhaps, a subscription-based music service? Look’s like we’ll find out early tomorrow morning.
Continue reading...Apple and Twitter strike deal over Ping/Twitter integration
Thursday, November 11, 2010
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Twitter today announced that it would be integrating Ping, Apple’s social networking service in iTunes, with Twitter. Users will now be able to share musical discoveries, song previews, and links to purchased and downloaded music from iTunes right into their Tweets. On Ping you can easily link to your Twitter account to instantly find Ping users […]
Continue reading...Length of iTunes song samples increased to 90 seconds
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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As Professor Farnsworth might say, “Good news everybody!” For those of you who find 30-second song previews on iTunes too short to accurately determine if a track is worth downloading, rejoice. Apple announced yesterday that song previews on iTunes will be extended to 90 seconds for songs that are longer than 2 minutes and 30 […]
Continue reading...Apple considering music subscription service for iTunes – Report
Friday, October 8, 2010
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Steve Jobs has stated time and time again that music subscriptions don’t work because people ultimately want to own their music. And while that may very well be the case, the music landscape is changing and Apple may soon be forced to adjust accordingly. According to a report today in the New York Post, Apple […]
Continue reading...iTunes is bloated… or is it?
Thursday, September 30, 2010
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Planned or not, iTunes quickly became the epicenter of Apple’s mobile strategy, first with the iPod, next with the iPhone, and more recently with the iPad. The first thing you gotta do when you bring home a new iPod Touch or iPhone is plug that bad boy into iTunes. Over the past few years, Apple […]
Continue reading...Cost of running iTunes estimated at $75 million/month
Sunday, September 12, 2010
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Apple has for sometime stated that it doesn’t generate significant profits from the iTunes Store and that it is, for all practical purposes, a break even venture. That notwithstanding, the addition of apps into iTunes has led to an enormous increase in the total number and bandwidth of downloads from iTunes. So while Apple may […]
Continue reading...App downloads on iTunes on pace to surpass music downloads by end of the year
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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Asymco recently published some telling graphs comparing the rise of iTunes song downloads to the ever increasing number of app downloads. While the comparison isn’t exactly fair given the abundance of free apps available for download, the charts below still tell an interesting story. As can be seen, the App store has reached the same total […]
Continue reading...Why song samples on iTunes didn’t increase to 60 seconds
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
A few days before last weeks media event, CNET reported that the preview samples for songs on iTunes were poised to double in length from 30 seconds to 1 minute. All in all, such a move seemed like a no-brainer given that one can’t always discern if a song is worth purchasing after listening to a randomly […]
Continue reading...Jobs on why there’s no Facebook integration on Ping
Sunday, September 5, 2010
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Apple last week unveiled iTunes 10, and curious monochrome UI changes aside, the biggest new aspect of iTunes is Ping, Apple’s take on social networking for music. Ping, which has already attracted over 1 million users since the new iTunes became available for download, allows users to get details about their favorite artists, share musical […]
Continue reading...Ping attracts over 1 million users in first 48 hours
Friday, September 3, 2010
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Apple this evening issued a press release stating that iTunes’ new social network for music, Ping, has already drawn in over 1 million users. Apple today announced that in less than 48 hours since its launch on Wednesday, more than one million users have joined Ping, its new social network for music which lets users […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs defends the new iTunes 10 logo
Friday, September 3, 2010
The new icon for the recently released iTunes 10 marks a departure from previous versions of the icon. In place of a music note overlayed on top of a CD, the new icon is simply a music note housed inside a Apple-esque translucent bubble. While some don’t seem to mind the update, others, predictably, aren’t always […]
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Monday, November 15, 2010
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