Apple to Stream Free McCartney Concert to Apple TV
Of course this isn’t a test for a larger strategy. Nope. Uh-uh.
iTunes Match is Live
Let’s hope it isn’t a ticket to iCloud Cookoo Land.
$25 per year to have access to your music from any Apple device. US-only for now*.
*Sorry, Jason.
I’m hoping this is a Beta-only restriction.
The Towson Hack: The mystery of vanishing iTunes credit - Macworld
Use iTunes. Watch your statements carefully.
There is a strange and as-yet unresolved problem with some customers’ iTunes Store credit disappearing in a variety of ways. It’s been going on for ten months now. Great reporting by Lex Friedman.
Via Chartier, Instapaper
A Match made in heaven?
Due to our friend Irene, I’m still not back in NYC, so this isn’t going to be a post on Match Vs. Spotify Vs. Rdio; that’ll be coming soon.
iTunes Match, the ‘if you have it in your library and we have it in ours you can play it back on any Apple device’ service, won’t be offering streaming even though they have purchased the rites to do it. Click the link for a good explanation on why (mobile infrastructure not up to scratch). My feeling is that Apple are waiting for A) Spotify Rdio to become a threat, B) 4G before they flip the switch.
Still a shame; the idea of my music everywhere (reliably), and at the sound quality I want is still unmet. A Match made in heaven? Not yet.
More soon.
Apple TV's new ability to stream movies from the cloud part of a larger iTunes Replay initiative?
Yes… there are lots of things that iTunes and your Apple TV should have been doing for a long time. Of course, it’s nice that the Music, Movie and TV industries are finally letting Apple do them.
Apple reaches 15 Billion App downloads; 1 Billion of those downloaded within the last month*. As a reminder, it’s taken almost ten years for Apple to shift 15 Billion songs, but less than three to hit the same number of apps.
Hey, HTML5, how are you doing?
*It was 14 Billion at WWDC.
Dive! Dive! Dive!
Spotify takes a shot across the bough of the iTunes Music Store
