Apple’s AirPlay is a perfect example of Apple’s marketing hype living up to reality. It “just works,” to borrow a phrase from seemingly any Apple executive ever to stand on a stage. For music fans, AirPlay is a boon unlike anything found on Android or any other smartphone platform. Many apps support it natively, allowing…
Music fans, and everyone else with a smartphone in their pockets for that matter, face a big problem: We have lots of stuff; it’s all on different machines; and we want it to be on other machines. Oh, and we don’t want to get an engineering degree in order for that to happen. You might…
The late Steve Jobs told the handpicked scribe of his biography Walter Isaacson that he had figured out “one more thing” — how to unite the world of Apple devices and services with the ubiquitous television. Jobs is no longer with us, but at the AllThingsD conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that television remains…
Apple’s AirPlay gives people the pleasure of watching movies, looking at photos, and of course listening to music wirelessly, zapping the content from their iPhones, iPod Touches, or iPads to their televisions and home speaker systems with a variety of popular iOS music apps. What about Google’s Android devices — do those work with AirPlay too?…
Apple’s Airplay, a proprietary method for zapping music all through your house without running wires everywhere, is expanding beyond the realm of iOS devices. Could it be on its way to becoming an industry standard — one that would allow Apple to charge the same sort of licensing fees for wireless music connections that it…
It’s the start of a new week, which for most of us means back to the grind. Add a little rain here at our Boston and New York offices, and it doesn’t leave much to smile about. But there’s a silver lining, because at Evolver.fm, each week brings new music apps for our “This Week…
Apple Airplay lets the Apple faithful send music from any connected Apple product that stores music or runs music apps (Mac/iTunes, iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone) to a $99 Apple TV, solving a problem that has confounded humankind for years: how to play music on the nice speakers without relying on cables or worrying about…
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — Music apps on the smartphone are the most promising delivery system for music since Napster, and much to the delight of forward-looking music fans, it’s now possible to stream music from those apps to speakers within the home. Apple’s AirPlay was first out of the gate, Google is expected to follow…
