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Apple to order 12 petabytes of cloud storage for iTunes

Published on: 13th April, 2011

A source from Isilon Systems recently claimed that Apple had launched a quite unusual large request of cloud storage systems. The company is said to have bought twelve petabytes of space for video downloads on iTunes. A contact from Storage Newsletter believes that this move is sufficient to make Apple the most important Isilon customer [...]

Apple says NC datacenter for MobileMe and iTunes will be ready in spring

Published on: 3rd March, 2011

During a recent Q&A session at its shareholder meeting, Apple confirmed some aspects related to the timing and role of its North Carolina datacenter. The new facility is meant to support both MobileMe and iTunes and it should go live in spring. Official details were not provided as, for example, what these enhanced services will [...]

Apple’s application iTunes juggernaut is ten years old

Published on: 21st January, 2011

The iTunes application of Apple is already ten years old, as it was first launched on the 9th of January 2001, nine months ahead of launching the first iPod in October the same year. The application has reached some major milestones while evolving over the past decade. It was first available as a Mac OS [...]

iTunes has 66.2 percent of digital, while Amazon MP3 is at loss

Published on: 30th December, 2010

The NPD Group said that iTunes had continued to increase its share in the US digital music market, while Amazon MP3 could not keep the pace. Amazon grew 2.3 percent on a year-to-year base, to 13.2 percent of the download market in the United States last summer, while Apple grew even more, 3.0 percent, to [...]

iTunes extends previews to 90 seconds

Published on: 15th December, 2010

Apple has begun to extend the previews available for users who sample songs. Previews are now 90-second long instead of 30 seconds. As previews are longer now, customers will get a better sense of the musical pieces. The implementation of longer previews has been delayed due to hesitance from some smaller labels and also due [...]

iTunes Store to get Beatles discography on sale

Published on: 23rd November, 2010

After many years of waiting, Apple has succeeded to secure the rights and get the Beatles discography for its iTunes Store. All the major studio albums of the band, such as Sgt. Pepper, Revolver and Abbey Road are present. Three compilation albums are also present, as well as a comprehensive box set, priced at $149. [...]

Movies offered in Japan through the iTunes Store

Published on: 17th November, 2010

Apple began to offer movies in Japan through the iTunes Store. This expansion gives local customers translated versions of English-language movies such as Toy Story 3 and specific Japanese titles like Ototo, Odoru Daisousasen The Movie 2. Local viewers will get the extended rights that are available in some countries, i.e. the usual thirty days [...]

Victory for Eminem producers in iTunes royalty case

Published on: 9th September, 2010

FBT Productions, producers of Eminem, have scored an important victory in a case against Universal Music, regarding iTunes royalties. An earlier court decision has been rejected by a court of appeals. The former decision suggested that ringtone and song sales at iTunes should be treated similarly to CD sales, returning only 12 percent in revenue [...]

Ping of Apple reaches one million users in only 48 hours

Published on: 9th September, 2010

Lately, Apple has hit a new milestone very quickly by reaching one million Ping users within only 48 hours after going online. The score is a third of the three million users having downloaded iTunes 10. eddy Cue, vice president of Internet Services, expected even a much higher number, as there were even more people [...]

Apple event focused on new music discovery in iTunes, with 60-second samples possible

Published on: 1st September, 2010

Apple’s event scheduled for September 1st may significantly focus on new music discovery in iTunes. A major component of this event may be associated with the “music discovery experience”. Other details have not been provided, but it is expected that song samples will be doubled to a full minute. Samples have been settled on 30-second [...]

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