In a flurry of synergistic back-slapping, Apple and Starbucks have pressed the flash to secure a deal where customers to the ghastly coffee shops in the UK can secure a ghastly music track from iTunes for free.
With the eagerly awaited iOS 5 software nearly ready to rumble, Apple have just released an update to iTunes, taking it up to version 10.5.
We suspect that it may not be around for long, but Spotify has announced big changes that will put the popular music streaming service in direct competition with Apple’s iTunes.
Apple has slipped out an updated version of its iTunes software, taking the latest release up to version 10.2.1.
Music retailers HMV are looking to rattle Apple with the announcement of their new hmvdigital download store which will offer 10 million songs with every UK Top 40 single costing just 40p each.
Apple has announced that a new update of their proprietary digital media player application, iTunes, is now available for download.
The latest version comes with iBooks support for the iPhone and iPod touch (withPDF syncing) plus home screen folder organisation, and nippier backups on iOS 4 devices.
This has been going on for so long now, we’re tempted just to keep on recycling the previous new stories, which would either state:
1. Huzzah! The Palm Pre firmware update means that iTunes will now sync with handset again
2. Boo! Apple’s latest firmware update has once again blocked the Pre from syncing with iTunes
Ding dong! Round five!
You’ve got to admires Palm’s chutzpah on this, as their latest v1.2.1 webOS update ‘unbreaks’ Apple’s blocking methods and lets Palm Pre users enjoy full iTunes syncing again.
With iTunes enjoying a truly vast market share we can see why Palm is persisting with this – after all why shouldn’t iTunes users be able to sync their paid for material with the device of their choice?
Apple are managing to restrict iTunes usage by means of the hardware’s Vendor ID (which the Pre has been spoofing), and Palm’s efforts to appeal to the USB Implementers Forum – the industry group overseeing the universal serial bus standard – fell on very deaf ears.
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