Apple has reason to celebrate. The company reported that it had sold over one million iPhone 3G’s by Sunday. “iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone … Read More »
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If you fire up Software Update, you will see that iTunes 7.7 is available. You can find applications in the iTunes Store, but you can’t purchase them unless you have 7.7 installed. The new update is “exclusively for iPhone and iPod Touch” so if you don’t … Read More »
There is a lot of buzz surrounding music labels’ agreements to sell DRM-free music in marketplaces other than the iTunes Music Store. The problem is that they miss the big picture. They don’t pay attention to the two things that really matter. People want to be … Read More »
I recently ripped a few seasons of my favorite TV shows from DVD’s to MP4′s so I could put them on my iPhone for when I travel; however, when I imported them into iTunes they imported as movies, not TV shows. No big deal I … Read More »
Today Apple quietly launched iTunesU-K12, a resource for K-12 schools and districts throughout the United States. So far, only a few states have contributed (Arizona, Florida, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Utah) with varying amounts of content available. iTunesU-K12 was announced at NECC (National Educational Computing … Read More »
I read an article this morning highlighting some very peculiar questions regarding how developers interact with customers via the iPhone/iPod Touch App store. I read all of them and the answers seemed so clear that I don’t know why Apple hasn’t answered them officially. Perhaps … Read More »
On February 27th, Apple announced that it had sold 4 billion songs total in the iTunes Music Store. Today, Apple quietly announced that it has now sold over 5 billion songs. Let’s do some quick math. It has been 114 days. One billion songs … Read More »
There is good news for iTunes users living in the UK and Canada early Wednesday morning Apple added a massive amount of movies to both iTunes stores. It’s true the iTunes UK and iTunes Canada are now featuring films from the following top movie studios; … Read More »
Netflix and Napster are both launching assaults on Apple, today. CNET is reporting the release of Netflix’s Apple TV rival, simply called Player by Roku, and Napster is getting into the digital music distribution with apparently an identical model to iTunes ($0.99 a song, … Read More »
I guess those rumors about NBC and Apple working things out aren’t going that well. Tonight on The Office, instead of Michael browsing the iTunes Store for music to make a mix cd for the new HR girl, Michael was browsing the Amazon MP3 store. … Read More »
Coldplay, that rockin’ British band has a new CD coming out in June, and if you pre-order now, you can get the title track today and also receive an acoustic version of the song “Lovers in Japan.” The single “Violet Hill,” which you can listen to … Read More »
Apple is quietly announcing that they now are offering content from PBS. Right now they are offering five stations: WGBH, KQED, WETA, WNET (Thirteen in New York), and ideastream. PBS offers great educational shows, interviews, and historical lessons from The War: A film by Ken … Read More »