(Video & Photos): Media Day at Apple's GC Store
The below are a video and photos of Apple's new Grand Central Store, which is scheduled to open this Friday at 7:00am.
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Month: December 2011
What is iTunes Match?
Back in late November, Apple introduced a new and innovative service called “iTunes Match”.
iTunes Match enables a user to import any of his or her older music CDs into iTunes, and then iTunes Match will match your music collection to what it has available in its own iTunes Store (thus the name) and then make that music available ‘in the cloud’ to any iOS device a person may have (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) for them to listen to anytime they have a network connection. If the service cannot find a song in its library, then iTunes Match will then upload the song to its service. Once the music is in the ‘cloud’, a user can either stream the song(s) or download them to any iOS device(s) the person may have. The service even plays those music files at 256-Kbps AAC-DRM free quality even if your older musical CDs are of less sound quality.
In order for the above to work, each iOS device must be upgraded to iOS 5, which is a free download from Apple. For step by step information on how to do this, just go to http://applescoop2.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/how-to-upgrade-your-ios-device-to-ios5/
iTunes Match costs $24.99 per year for unlimited access.
For more information about iTunes Match, just go to http://www.apple.com/itunes.
Tim Cook: First 100 days as Apple's CEO
(CNN) -- World leaders are often measured by what they do in their first 100 days in office. But what about business leaders?
As of Friday, it has been 100 days since Apple co-founder and longtime CEO Steve Jobs passed the company torch to Tim Cook.
Since that first day, August 24, Wall Street and legions of Apple fans have had their gazes fixed on Cook. As the man heading arguably the most influential and valuable technology company in the world, Cook wields a great deal of power.
Rumor: Hard Drive shortage hitting Built to order Macs
Build-to-order Macs where the customer has specified a 2TB hard drive have suddenly jumped from a estimated shipping time of "next business day" to a new status of 5-7 weeks, in what could be a sign of the company being hit by the ongoing global hard drive shortage. Other drive sizes are unaffected so far, and the issue only crops up on built-to-order iMacs with 2TB drive options selected, reports AppleInsider.
Read more: http://www.macnn.com/#ixzz1fcN6w5xp
