techcrunch.com - 9/8/2009
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Here we are on the eve of another Apple event. There is never a shortage of hype surrounding these, but this one may have a bit more than normal because of the possibility that it could be Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ first public gig since returning to the company following a lengthy and very ...
news.cnet.com - 9/3/2009
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news.cnet.com —
Apple has obtained the rights to offer ready-made
ringtones for the iPhone and managers are trying to...
have them available in time for next week's press conference , music industry sources told CNET News. Owners of Apple's iPhone have long had ...
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Apple to offer ready-made ringtones
appleinsider.com - 9/8/2009
appleinsider.com - 9/7/2009
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appleinsider.com —
A previously rejected iPhone title offering emulated play
of Commodore 64 titles has been approved after the...
developer made changes to align it with Apple's SDK. It allows the iPhone to act as a system that was what was once Apple's staunch competitor.
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Apple approves Commodore 64 emulator for iPhone
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Claimed 2TB iDisk upgrades spark iTunes in the cloud rumor-machine
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... What’s really set us thinking is the Cult of Mac report when read in conjunction with a second item on TechCrunch this morning. An opinion piece which describes the “inevitable move of iTunes” into the cloud. ...
Apple event speculation: App Store fix, $150 iPod touch, more
AppleInsider —
... "propitious." Finally, TechCrunch's MG Siegler speculated that iTunes will inevitably be a cloud-based service. Citing the huge size of HD video offerings, the report suggests that Apple's media service could allow users to stream , rather than download. In this vision, Apple would allow users to purchase and delete locally saved content, and retain the ability to download it again in the future if the user wanted to access it on the go, via an iPod or iPhone. The report acknowledges the huge costs that would accompany such a change, but the transition would also make it ...
Rumor Roundup: Delays Might Trouble Apple’s Wednesday Event
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... We disagree, however, with TechCrunch’s suggestion that Apple will make an announcement about cloud-based iTunes storage as soon as tomorrow. Considering the data center hasn’t even been built yet, it’ll be at least one more year before Apple announces a move toward cloud computing for iTunes. ...
Poll: Should iTunes Move to the Cloud?
The iPhone Blog —
Should iTunes move to the cloud?(survey software)
Techcrunch thinks the move of iTunes to the clouds is inevitable. Back in February there were rumors of something called iTunes Replay, that would allow users to store their media purchases — which can easily grow to 10s if not 100s of GBs fairly quickly — on Apple’s servers and then stream them down to iTunes, Apple TV, or their iPhone or iPod touch on-demand.
Nothing came of it at the time. Since then, however, Apple has begun building a world-class ...
Fifteen Questions Prompted by Today’s Apple Event
Technologizer —
... What’s the single thing you’re most disappointed wasn’t announced? You mean not counting non-music-related things such as tablets? It woulda been neat if there’d been news involving iTunes moving to the cloud. As TechCrunch’s MG Siegler says, it ...
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Time for Apple and AT&T to See Other People?
modmyi.com 9/5/2009 —
images via Apple, AT&T
PC World is out with a great article this weekend that asks a question we've all posed to ourselves and to others: isn't it about time for Apple and AT&T to see other people?
An "open marriage" is how writer Ian Paul puts it.
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Apple criticized over iTunes LP development costs
appleinsider.com 10/11/2009 — Critics are lambasting Apple over its new iTunes LP format, charging that the company has priced indies out of the game by charging a production fee of $10,000 to develop the interactive titles. Content authors are likely to view the fees as absurdly ...
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Goodbye iPod, hello iPhone
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Loopt shows iPhone a new trick —
Apple 9/5/2009
Apple's iPhone has been a sensation from its launch '” even if, digitally speaking, it can't walk and chew gum at the same time. There are now more than 65,000 applications in the App Store, but the iPhone only runs one at a time '” a ...
What will Apple announce? —
Apple 9/9/2009
While this morning's event in San Francisco is likely to focus on the iPod lineup, speculation ranges from a new tablet to an Apple TV update '” to the Beatles. And there's still uncertainty about whether Steve Jobs himself will show up.
Steve Jobs is back on stage —
Apple 9/10/2009
After nearly a year out of the public eye, as he underwent and recovered from a liver transplant, the Apple co-founder and CEO walked back into the spotlight Wednesday.
iPod Nano gets a camera
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Rhapsody streaming app approved for iPhones —
Apple 9/10/2009
LOS ANGELES — RealNetworks' subscription music service Rhapsody has been approved for use on iPhones and iPod Touches, the first time Apple has allowed an on-demand music streaming program on its devices in the United States.
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