Since Apple announced its new iTunes Match service on Monday, many have been wondering what will be the legal status of the songs they “upgrade” using the service. Here are some answers.
Q: How does it work?
A: For $24.99 a year, Apple will scan your music collection, note which songs you have, and upgrade each to a high quality …
Mac Rumors is reporting that Apple has quietly relaxed its controversial guidelines regarding in-app subscription pricing for developers, which most directly affects apps by magazine and newspaper publishers.
Apple’s policy had required in-app subscriptions to be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app,” which …
All that fine print that you and I and everyone else who’s not studying to be a lawyer skips over when installing software is called the EULA—end user license agreement. The one for Apple’s iTunes software (warning—it’s a PDF and it’s reaaaallly long) may very well contain some useful information.
Instead of reading through it …
If you’ve ever found yourself waiting for a bus or subway train, wondering why it hasn’t arrived at its exact scheduled time, I think I saw you dejectedly pacing around at the bus stop near my place this morning. Get with it, man! It’s the bus! And it was, like, 7:00 in the morning. That’s primetime, buddy.
Man, this guy. He was the …
For months, you’ve been trying to help those Angry Birds protect their eggs from the mysteriously green pigs, and now you’ll finally get to find out why they wanted those eggs in the first place with the Angry Birds Cookbook.
Oh, you only think that I’m joking.
Not content with parlaying the uber-successful app into animated …
What goes down must eventually come back up. That would’ve been Newton’s fourth law had he lived another 284 years and been using Skype this morning.
“Skype broken for everyone?” wrote Xona Games’ game producer Matthew Doucette on Twitter this morning. I glanced up at my Mac’s menu bar. Sure enough, the dreaded X-Cloud (or …
At WWDC today, Apple unveiled its long-awaited iMessage – a real-time instant messaging service that’s essentially its version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) – to polite clapping. Great news for iOS fans; bad news for RIM, which is probably the biggest understatement ever, today.
BBM’s unique properties (instantaneous texts, …
Apple’s Steve Jobs took the stage at his company’s Worldwide Developers Conference today and, along with several other senior Apple officials, showcased what’s coming from Apple’s desktop operating system, Mac OS X Lion; the operating system that powers the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, iOS; and the long-rumored “iCloud” online storage …
We’re live at 10AM Pacific, 1PM Eastern from Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in California. Harry McCracken of Technologizer is steering the liveblog ship, with commentary provided by yours truly.
We’re expecting to hear information about the next version of Apple’s mobile operating system, details about the future of the OS X …
Interesting. See that thing up there? That’s Roku. It’s a nice, inexpensive, internet-connected box that you hook up to your TV. Once it’s set up, you can use it to stream movies and TV shows from the likes of Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon, plus music and photos from Pandora and Flickr, respectively.
But the company has just …
Apple’s iWork suite is now available on iPhones and iPod Touches, and it’s free for users who already have the iPad versions.
iWork consists of three programs: Pages for written documents, Numbers for spreadsheets and Keynote for presentations. Each app costs $10. There’s no discount for buying them all at once, but as universal iOS …