Steve Jobs, architect of a shockingly large portion of today’s computing landscape, left us last year. Do you use an iOS device, or even Android? You have Steve Jobs to thank. As it turns out, you can also listen to “Steve Jobs’ iPod” in your web browser and various devices, thanks to some digging from…
We don’t report much on the action-figures scene, but given that Steve Jobs invented the app as we know it today, we feel obliged to mention that the incredibly life-like Steve Jobs action figure, which was announced after his passing, will not actually go on sale for $99 as had previously been reported. Following what action-figure…
Steve Jobs, the godfather of the app scene (and many others) passed away last October. Jobs was many things, but he was not a fan of bargain-priced hardware, as anyone who has paid, for a Mac, twice what the Windows equivalent would cost. As first reported by Forbes, a company called Inicons (“in icons”?), whose website…
There are plenty of reasons not to buy Apple TV or Google TV, and some of them have to do with the people who hold many of the cards being perfectly happy with the way things are today. You can’t really cut the cord if you like television programming, as many of us do, which is…
In the olden days, most of the music on music fans’ hard drives came from P2P networks and ripped CDs. If Apple’s vision of the music cloud proves dominant, the future will resemble that past, perhaps with MP3s downloaded from music blogs replacing CD ripping. Steve Jobs didn’t believe people wanted to rent music, which…
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the device that finally allowed me to explain what I do: “I write about iPods and stuff like that.” And today marks the three week anniversary of the passing of Steve Jobs, who didn’t invent the MP3 player or even the iPod for that matter, but arguably perfected…
Apple launches its iCloud suite of services today, offering 5GB of free storage (more if you pay) for music, photos, apps, and other data, all of which sync effortlessly across any number of Apple devices: iMacs, Macbooks, Mac Minis, Mac Pros, iPod Touchs, iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, and AirPort Expresses. This will strengthen a trend…
At the risk of giving too much away, we have some… interesting apps for you this week. But when haven’t we? This Week In Music Apps has been bringing you farm-fresh picks from the latest, greatest music app releases for 18 weeks straight. Don’t believe us? Check out our past installments for all the apps you can…
At an industry event last night to celebrate the launch of a music app that runs on smartphones, tablets and now televisions, a breaking news push notification on my iPhone 4 alerted me to the sad news that Steve Jobs had lost his battle with cancer. Everything I was doing at the time — and,…
Ten years ago this month, in a small-ish theater at Apple Computer headquarters at One Infinite Loop, I saw Steve Jobs unveil the iPod. On November 2, 2001, I wrote, “The iPod is revolutionary in a number of ways, and its descendants will replace the PC.” I think I was right, as we’re starting to see now with…
In the wake of Steve Jobs resignation, which was going to come as a shock regardless of how, when, or why it happened, the tech world is looking for new visionaries. San Jose Mercury News’ Chris O’Brien took things a step further, asking, “Who Will Be Silicon Valley’s Next Steve Jobs?” That’s an easy one,…
You have to hand it to Apple… or do you? The company’s demand that companies offering subscriptions to everything from magazines to music services through iOS hand over 30 percent of resulting revenue to the company could be backfiring already. Apple’s projected revenue from other companies’ sale of iTunes apps is a big reason its stock price is…
It’s good to be king. Apple deserves lots of credit for creating an entirely new market for mobile software in the iTunes app store, over which it justifiably reigns. But the army of developers who have created over half a million Apple iOS apps to date perform another valuable function, in addition to making Apple’s…
The Monday keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference failed to bring a shiny new iPhone, but those of us who’ve been following the developments in Cupertino were already prepared for that letdown. More interesting (in addition to iCloud) are the revamped features for iOS 5, which hold ramifications for your music experience on the iPhone. Apple…
Music insiders have long known that starting any sort of large-scale music distribution service requires big upfront payments to the major labels, in the form of cash or equity in the service — see MySpace Music, Vevo, Imeem, and Spotify. Now, three sources (we guess from the labels themselves) have reportedly indicated to the New York Post…
