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Mar 7 2010

ITunes Store/App Store Outage?

We’re getting lots of reports from lots of different places that Apple’s iTunes Store and App Store are down or otherwise erroring out for users.

Hopefully Apple is working on a fix and things will [...]


Mar 3 2010

iTunes Unhappy Amazon is Getting Early Bird Album Specials from Record Labels

Billboard is reporting that Amazon MP3’s deals with record labels to offer certain albums a day early and a few bucks cheaper have caused iTunes to raise a few eyebrows… and flex some not-so-subtle music [...]


Mar 3 2010

Do You Want Apple to Stream Movies to Your iPhone, iPad From iTunes Cloud?

According to CNET on Gizmodo, Apple is once again rumored to be considering a streaming, cloud-based (iTunes.com?) movie service.

Apple has told the studios that under the plan, iTunes users will access video from [...]


Feb 25 2010

Apple Yanks “Explicit” Option from iTunes

We are sorry to pass on the news, but Apple has yanked the “explicit” category that was spotted earlier today within the App Store submission software, iTunes Connect.

An iPhone developer tipster told Gizmodo s/he verified [...]


Feb 24 2010

iTunes Music Hits 10 Billion Downloads!

So the contest is done and we’re waiting to see who won Apple’s 10 Billion iTunes Music download $10,000 iTunes gift card.

We’ll update as soon as they announce a winner, but in the meantime if [...]


Feb 19 2010

Find My iPhone Now Working on iPhone Safari, iTunes Preview Categories Now Working on Web

Apple has changed MobileMe’s me.com site, previously inaccessible from iPhone or iPod touch Safari, to not only allow access to Find My iPhone, but to offer help in setting up accounts and getting additional apps. [...]


Feb 15 2010

Apple Banning iPhone Hackers (NOT Jailbreakers) from iTunes App Store?

It would appear that Apple has taken a more agressive approach to certain iPhone hackers by banning their Apple IDs from the iTunes App Store.

iPhone developer/hacker, Sherif Hashim, first received a message on his iPhone [...]


Feb 12 2010

Apple Begins 10K Count Down to 10 Billion iTunes Music Downloads

Apple has begun a countdown to it’s 10 billionth (that’s right, 10,000,000,000) iTunes music download, and to celebrate they’re giving away a $10,000 dollar gift card.

iTunes changed the way you buy music, making [...]


Feb 11 2010

Gates/Allchin Email: iTunes “Smoked” Microsoft, Caught them “Flat Footed”

Former Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates, and Windows Vista honcho, Bill Allchin, had an email exchange back in 2003 when Apple launched iTunes and were rather candid about how well Steve Jobs put it together, and [...]


Feb 11 2010

FT: Apple to Test $1 iTunes TV Downloads with iPad Launch?

Financial Times is reporting that Apple might just be set to test drive $1 iTunes TV downloads as part of their iPad launch in March:

Some television networks agreed to the lower prices after [...]


Feb 9 2010

Shocking! Repetitive! Higher iTunes Music Prices Slowed Sales

When iTunes Music went DRM-free and “hits” jumped from $0.99 to $1.29 stories soon followed that the higher price point was leading to slower sales… and now that iBooks and publishers aim to increase eBook [...]


Feb 4 2010

iTunes Adds In-Browser App Store Previews

iTunes has followed up their recent addition of in-browser music previews with in-browser App Store previews, changing the way iTunes link work from a simple redirect to desktop iTunes to a full-on web showcase for [...]


Feb 1 2010

Apple Releases iTunes 9.0.3

Apple has released iTunes 9.0.3, and it is now available via Software Update (98.1MB).

iTunes 9.0.3 provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

iTunes no longer ignores your “Remember password for purchases” setting.
Addresses [...]


Jan 26 2010

Apple Pushing for $1 iTunes TV Shows?

It currently costs $1.99 for a standard definition TV on iTunes, and rumor has it Apple is pushing the networks to halve that price, making it just $1.

Apple’s belief, media executives said, is [...]


Jan 19 2010

No Subscriptions From Apple, Future iTunes to Upgrade Users’ Media Catalogs to Lala Cloud?

In a guest-post on TechCrunch, MP3.com founder and MP3tunes CEO, Michael Robertson cites a “wide variety of insider sources” when saying Apple will NOT offer subscription services any time soon, but rather leverage their recent [...]


Dec 22 2009

Developers: Is iTunes Connect Down for You?

iTunes Connect, the online portal developers use to upload and manage their App Store apps, appears to be down for the moment.

Apple had previously announced that iTunes Connect would be unavailable over the holidays between [...]


Dec 22 2009

CBS, Disney, Considering Unannounced Apple iTunes Subscription TV Service

According to the Wall Street Journal, CBS (and CW) and Disney (ABC, Disney Channel, ABC Family) and considering Apple’s (unannounced yet previously rumored) subscription TV service. To throw nebulous fuel on the imaginary fire, the [...]


Dec 17 2009

iTunes Offers Movie Bundles for the Holidays

iTunes is now offering Movie Bundles [iTunes link] with a variety of double, triple, and quadruple features ranging in price from $9.99 to $34.99.

The US iTunes store looks to have a better selection than Canada [...]


Dec 12 2009

Apple Updates App Store — Less Words, More Screenshots

Apple has begun rolling out an update to the way the iTunes (on Windows or Mac) shows the App Store, including fewer words and more screenshots. Rather than the lengthy app descriptions of old, iTunes [...]


Dec 11 2009

UPDATED: iTunes Offers Free Holiday Sampler by Various Artists to iPhone/iPod Owners

If you been searching for some holiday music for your iPhone or iPod, iTunes has you covered with the iTunes Holiday Sampler by various artists. Oh, and not only is it free for one week, [...]