Well, it took Apple a few hours longer than an anticipated to release this hotly anticipated whole-number update of the world’s most-popular jukebox, device management and online music-movie-TV-app storefront. So, what’s new and what didn’t make the cut?
Every new phone that comes out is heralded as the new killer of the iphone, and none has yet come even close. Is it going to be even easier for any (or all) of the iPad clones to kill the Apple tablet?
[u] It finally showed, but it was a conspiracy too good not to share — thanks for reading! On Wednesday, Steve Jobs told the world that iTunes 10 would be available for download in a matter of hours. Now, hours later, the promised update hasn’t shown up in Software Update or on the company’s Software Downloads support page either.
The event is over and usually we have to wait several before the cached stream of the event gets posted at Apple.com for all to see. Not this time, however, as the live stream of the event has been transitioned seamlessly to the cache and it’s ready for you to watch right now.
First it was the long-awaited, and nicely wrought, iPhone application for iOS4. Now, word has it that Apple will be announcing (at today’s event) a set-top box which will allow streaming of Netflix on Apple TV.
For the first time in waking memory, the mothership will live stream an event, and QuickTime isn’t listed as a required application. What’s more, you’ve gotta have a Mac, iPhone, iPod touch or iPad running Safari to tune in, which likely has the last few Windows-only tech editors scrambling for a device to watch on.
Like Google and Apple, Intel is burning through its cash reserve to purchase companies that mean big sales in the future. These acquisitions are likely to put more and more Intel parts into Apple products.
The last Mac version of this benchmark engineering and design application shipped way, way back in 1992. Now the company’s planning not only to rise, rise, rise again on the fairer platform, but also deliver an idevice companion app for the pocket protector crowd.
That nefarious lot otherwise know as “sources” claims that Apple will increase the length of music samples by an order of magnitude (the industry’s still doomed). Maybe this small tidbit will be Steve Jobs’ “one more thing” come Wednesday’s “acoustic guitar with an Apple logo sound hole” event?
The Apple iPad has rarely, if ever, shipped quickly in it’s stellar sales history, but the Apple site now says it can ship a unit in 24 hours. Shipping times on the iPhone 4 remain a bit more distant: 3 weeks.
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