[pretty picture coming later; I'm at work without accecss to my iTunes, 'k?]
Alright folks. Those of you furiously doing the pee dance for the official release of Firmware 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch can stop now, because it is now officially available.
Those of you who have upgraded to iTunes 7.7 will now be notified of the new firmware version, which you can choose to upgrade in the usual ways. iPod Touch users will have to fork out a sawbuck (that $10 to you) for the priviledge, but iPhone users naturally get the semper liber treatment because they pay through the nose in other ways. (Once again, blame the SarbOx act)
Since the official, legitemate versions are now out you should have none of the issues some were reporting with the direct links (the “leaked” Touch firmware potentially notwithstanding) and should be able to enjoy the App Store in all of its fine glory, both via iTunes and over-the-air.
Of course, as I’ve said before, there is still presently no official jailbreak method for 2.0 yet; Zibree is working on it, and it’s still a wee bit too early to hear whether anyone’s had success with Pwnage, much less whether jailbroken devices happily coexist with the App Store, so those of you not wishing to give up your iLiberation just yet will want to play a bit of the waiting game to see what news drops on that end of things. For the rest of you who don’t mind going legit, or don’t mind some time away from the jailbreak scene, your App Store awaits.
(via Engadget)
Written by Eric March on July 11th, 2008 with no comments.
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Over in the land down under, Apple’s Australian iTunes Store has just begun to offer television programming for sale. The online location is offering a standard price of $2.99 AUS per episode, although no season passes seem to be available as of this writing as of now.
Written by Chris Barylick on June 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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Many 3G devices on many carriers can download music and such over the air, but for EDGE devices like the iPhone this is a little less practical. Now there are over the air downloads via the iTunes Store for the iPhone, but you must be in a WiFi hot spot to take advantage of the service. With the addition of 3G to the new iPhone though, over the air downloads will be much more feasible.
That’s because the addition of 3G will make the device exponentially faster when transferring data. Also, 3G will increase call quality. An article in the New York Time suggests that Apple is in talks with major record labels about the service. It seems all is not well in the negotiations though, as the labels are all wanting more than 70 cents per song.
According to the article Apple is planning a big launch in June. Apple also is looking to add more songs to its listing of ring tones. Apple is also looking to bring call tones to the iPhone, which may be worth even more than a traditional ring tone according to the report. It is assumed if a deal is struck it will be introduced at Apple’s WWDC event on June 9th.
[Via AppleInsider]
Written by Chase Higgins on May 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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When NBC started making conciliatory gestures toward Apple back in January it looked as thought the network’s TV shows might soon be back on iTunes. Of course, that hasn’t happened, and the two companies are still arguing over how media is priced and whether Apple is using, as many analysts suspect, iTunes as a loss-leader to pull in new iPod buyers. Now NBC’s chief digital officer, George Kliavkoff, has cranked the pressure up a notch, with the suggestion that current anti-piracy solutions aren’t secure enough to protect his company’s content.
“If you look at studies about MP3 players, especially leading MP3 players and what portion of that content is pirated, and think about how that content gets onto that device, it has to go through a gatekeeping piece of software, which would be a convenient place to put some antipiracy measures. One of the big issues for NBC is piracy. We are financially harmed every day by piracy. It results in us not being able to invest as much money in the next generation of film and TV products” George Kliavkoff, chief digital officer, NBC
While NBC Universal’s film arm distributes through iTunes, currently the only legal way for users to view TV content online is via the Hulu service. Described as a YouTube for professionally produced video - together with the anti-piracy measures such producers demand - Hulu currently lacks any download or mobile device use. Since iTunes is the largest music retailer in the US, Kliavkoff’s comments seem obviously aimed at Apple.
NBC and Apple have disagreed over the way wholesale and retail pricing is arrived at. NBC are looking to set their own wholesale price, from which point they say retailers are free to mark it up, to make profit, or mark it down and use it as a loss-leader. However Apple are apparently trying to set both the price they sell content at and the price they buy it, passing the loss-leader mark-down on to NBC. The network pulled its TV shows from iTunes in December last year.
Written by Chris Davies on April 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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The new build of iPhone OS 2.0 now features contact search. Alleluia! I have over 1,500 contacts I’ve been collecting over the past ten years. After flicking through the list a few dozen times does get old. Anyways, the search function is also included with the revised iPhone Simulator that comes with the SDK build 9M2158a, beta 3.
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Written by Vincent Nguyen on April 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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