8 posts tagged itunes
A message to the iTunes.app team at Apple: make wifi sync really work. Please. Thank you.
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JFMartin
I would have liked Gruber to say why he thinks Apple doesn’t do iTunes for Android (beside the obvious problem of platform fragmentation). Is it a marketing choice? Would this be perceived as a failure to dominate with iOS? Is it because the lack of engagement of Android users wouldn’t add much to Apple’s bottom line?
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JFMartin
I think Apple’s strengths are twofold: brand loyalty and the ecosystem. Both combined creates a powerful juggernaut that isn’t easy to compete against. Having great hardware alone isn’t enough (Samsung), having services isn’t enough (Google), having loyal users alone doesn’t cut it.
Apple has both and listening to Tim Cook’s comments on the last conference call, I’m sure Apple has some plans to build on top of this in order to offer powerful new offerings to Apple customers.
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JFMartin
This is happening on my iMac @ home. You know why? I do. When iTunes 11 came out, I installed it on my PC @ work. Then I turned on iTunes Match to see all my music library. I was impressed to be able to see and play my music on this computer while working.
Back home, I recently tried to download a music song from iCloud because I wanted the song to be on my computer. This is when I got this warning. What a shame.
iTunes Match prevents us from listening to our music wherever we want. This is the worst iCloud constrain that I discovered. What is this silly rule probably imposed to Apple from the recording music companies?
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JFMartin
“Now that Ping is dead, iTunes feels snappier™.”
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JFMartin
![I wonder how Apple will remove this from iTunes. As of today, Ping is still available.
[Update #1: Seems that it is now officially dead.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb7pg5E6wW1r6f5f4o1_500.png)
I wonder how Apple will remove this from iTunes. As of today, Ping is still available.
[Update #1: Seems that it is now officially dead.]
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JFMartin
Why so many people hate iTunes.app? Why people who want to put music on their iPhone don’t get the reason why they need iTunes.app in order to do it? Why is iTunes so badly perceived by so many people yet Apple seems to pour more and more stuff into it? Last year Apple may have cut the cord with the PC but will we ever get rid of iTunes.app?
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JFMartin
Apple always take the time it think it takes to solve a problem. They did it when they released a new MacBook air which was a big step forward compared to the original one. They did it when they implemented copy & paste in iOS 3. And they will do it with iTunes.app. MacStories and many others think that iTunes.app is broken. It is. They will fix it by killing it and move all that stuff to iCloud.
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JFMartin
