Topic: Apple iTunes

Three Mobile Music Apps That Rule

iTunes 9 is the most bloated version yet: The app alone is 160MB, even bigger than iMovie. And while the it is pretty slick, and Genius can now make you the personal mixtape you always wanted, iTunes 9 also tries hard to woo you into ...READ»

Measure the Cost of Customer Acquisition

A simple web site that sells products. A problem with one sale, the customer orders a $40 product in error and asks for a refund/credit. Do you train your CS staff to say, "sorry, your fault, no can do" or have you ...READ»

Digital Kingdom

How the numbers for Disney's Digital Kingdom add up.READ»

Survey Shows MP3 Pirates Also Buy the Most MP3s, So Why All the Fuss?

A survey conducted in Norway found that music consumers who regularly download illegally pirated music tracks are also the largest purchasers of legitimate digital music files, by a factor of 10 over non-pirates. So, you have to ...READ»

Three Technologies That Are Helping to Save the Music Biz

The music biz has gone from fighting the trend of increasing technological involvement in how its product reaches the public to a tentative embrace. We're all familiar with the RIAA legal abuses of music pirates, the tussle between ...READ»

Eight Days to Go: Apple Event Rumor Round-Up

Next week Wednesday is when Apple will host its traditional iPod media event. At least, that's what everyone's assuming from the "It's Only Rock'N'Roll, But We Like It" tagline Apple chose. As usual there's a bunch of swirling rumors, ...READ»

Designed Experiences: The Evolution of Intelligent Design

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iTunes' Share of Music Market Grows to 25%

It's safe to say the music industry is in a transition period, but one thing that's not going anywhere? iTunes. iTunes has quickly taken hold of a good portion of the entire music industry: it accounts for 25% of all music units sold ...READ»

Amazon Takes on iTunes

Amazon.com has announced they are going to provide a music download service later this year featuring songs without Digital Rights Management. With this move, Amazon joins Apple in selling DRM-free music that has no restrictions and ...READ»

Will Tiered Pricing Threaten iTunes' Music-Biz Dominance?

As promised months ago, Apple has implemented a tiered pricing structure for iTunes music tracks today. But with many of the same tracks available from Amazon at a lower price, and a fresh report showing that Amazon's music ...READ»

Media: Can Google, Limewire Outplay iTunes?

The digital music market continues to be an exemplary battleground for the implications new media has on pre-established business practices. Startup gBox and infamous Limewire are venturing into the digital music market to try to ...READ»

All Eyes On Apple

Will the gray light of January cool the world's hottest company?READ»

Technology: Interview with Eric Rochow of Gardenfork.tv

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Eric Rochow, the creator and producer of Gardenfork.tv, his "internet show" or "videoblog". What is Gardenfork? Gardenfork is an internet video show - iTunes video podcast about ...READ»

How to Get iPhone OS 3.0 Now (Yes, Now)

If you're an iPhone user, you watched the announcement of iPhone OS 3.0 with lip-smacking enthusiasm. But Apple wants you to wait until June 17th to download the new software--an unbearable seven days away. Why not get the new ...READ»

The 10 Most Creative People in the Music Biz

1. DeAndre "Soulja Boy Tell'em" Way, rapper/producer The 18-year-old Web wunderkind took a crazy song and dance, and propelled it via YouTube and MySpace fame into an Interscope recording contract and platinum ...READ»

Nine Killer Features in iTunes 9

Today Steve Jobs made a grand reappearance on the Apple stage to introduce iTunes 9 at Apple's Rock 'n Roll event in San Francisco. So what's new? 1) iTunes LP is a new incentive for full-album purchases: you get images, ...READ»

Apple Won't Sue Palm Over iTunes Syncing--There's No Need

The Palm Pre's ability to sync with iTunes led to speculation that Apple would drop the legal hammer on its competitor. But it turns out there are plenty of reasons for Apple to just look the other way.READ»

Learning Search Engine Marketing with Podcasts

If you don’t have time to read about search engine optimization, you may consider subscribing to some search engine marketing related podcasts.READ»

Palm's Pre Syncs With iTunes, but Apple May Squash the Link

Palm's Chairman, speaking at the D7 conference yesterday, confirmed that the Palm Pre has a neat trick: It syncs with iTunes just like an iPod would. While that's handy, Apple isn't likely to tolerate the situation for too ...READ»

Europe Moves to Open the Borders for Digital Music

The complex European rules that prevent iTunes from opening its doors everywhere--French members buying music from the German iTunes, for example--may be getting overhauled. That's if Europe's Competition Commissioner gets her ...READ»

Always On Onion

Where do you get your news? CNN, ABC, FOX, Comedy Central? As American maintain loyalty to these mainstream news outlets, there is a growing audience (19% online political news consumers) of younger audience that seek their news from ...READ»

Billionth iPhone App Sold, Other Smartphones Still Just Hoping You Download One

The iTunes App Store is the absolute king of the smartphone applications world. Not only has the billionth app just been downloaded, but a recent survey shows that smartphone users who don't own an iPhone simply don't ...READ»

DoubleTwist, the Anti-iTunes, Teams Up With Amazon

DoubleTwist, a fantastic little alternative to iTunes, has just become a big alternative. The Mac app is no longer just a stand-in library app: it now features music buying courtesy of Amazon, and lets you sync that music to pretty ...READ»

Why You'll Buy-Not Download-U2's "No Line On The Horizon"

Plenty of people have already written eulogies for the compact disc now that iTunes is the number one U.S. music retailer, and CD sales are in a death spiral. But U2 is making an excellent case for old-fashioned physical, ...READ»

SanDisk SlotRadio: MP3 Playing The Wrong Way

Apple's dropping of DRM in iTunes means full freedom of choice for music fans to do what they wish with their MP3s. But SanDisk's newest SlotRadio device just doesn't work like that: It comes pre-loaded with 1,000 songs...which you ...READ»