Frank Ocean recently released an album called “Channel Orange” and it appears that Target decided not to stock the album because it was released on week early exclusively on Apple iTunes.
Apple is spinning the podcasts section out of iTunes into a standalone app. Users will still be able to download and play all of their favorite podcasts from their mobile devices. People who use iTunes through their PCs will still be able to find podcasts in iTunes. This isn’t the first time that Apple separated content into separate apps. When Apple’s e-books and digital publications started taking off, Apple spun it off into the Newstand app. iTunes U lectures have their own app as well.
Finding some of the best apps on the Apple App Store can be rather difficult. This is why Apple acquired Chomp. Apple has also launched a new section called for iTunes and the Mac App Store called “Editors’ Choice.” The current Editors’ Choice on the iTunes is Cobook, Facebook Camera, Extreme Skater, Air Mail, and Sketchbook Ink. As part of the “app of the week” series, Apple has made Cut The Rope: Experiments free. The Amazon Appstore is known for offering apps for free at a heavy discount, promotional discounts for iOS and the Mac App Store are up to the developer. To my understanding, if a developer significantly reduces their price as requested by Apple, they would be given 100% of the revenue rather than the typical 70-30 split.
Apple is rumored to have started internally developing the major release of iTunes 11. The work iTunes 11 started before iTunes 10.6 was shipped. iTunes 11 is believed to support the upcoming iOS 6 release and future devices. The iTunes Store and App Store is expected to be revamped between summer and fall. Apple’s acquisition of Chomp will help the company organize apps and media better. iCloud will have a dedicated settings panel within iTunes 11 for syncing data stored on your iOS devices.
If you have an iPhone and encountered a problem when trying to update or restoring your device called error 3194. This error is especially common if you are using Cydia. You can fix the problem by removing the Cydia SHSH caching server from your host file.
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Apple has updated the iTunes Movie Trailers App to support Retina Display for the new iPad. The trailers app has the same content on the Apple Movie Trailers website. This is a great way of seeing how sharp the iPad screen really is. Above is a screenshot of the movie Brave. The app works on WiFi and LTE, but your LTE bandwidth allotment would be consumed rather quickly if you are a movie trailer fiend. [MacRumors]
Apple has announced a new feature that will differentiate their music store from other online music stores. The feature is called “Mastered for iTunes.” Songs on Mastered for iTunes were put together using high-fidelity, processed with a set of guidelines and tools that maintain as much of the sound quality of the original and uncompressed file as possible.
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) vice president of consumer applications Jeff Robbin is best known for developing iTunes and helped create the iPod. According to sources with Bloomberg, Robbin will now be spearheading the development of an Apple television set. Before Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passed away, he told his biographer Walter Isaacson that he had “finally cracked” how to build an integrated TV set with a simple user interface that could wirelessly synchronize content with Apple’s other devices.
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