iTunes in Cloud Is About Simultaneous Listen and Download

Posted by iunlock under News on Wednesday Sep 21, 2011

When Apple finally released the iTunes Match beta, many developers unraveled that iTunes in Cloud can also support musicstreaming for gadgets like iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone. The entire world of blogging got pretty excited with this news since it was perceived before that iTunes in iCloud is only downloadable. But it seems we went wrong when we said it supports music streaming.

The confirmation was received by an official spokesperson of Apple who informed that songs can only be downloaded on local setting for the iOS device or the computer for you to be able to listen to them. Apple explained that instead of the streaming term, what they meant is that it can support simultaneous listening and downloading.

To better understand this matter, you may want to check out the video walkthrough of the iTunes Match made by InsanelyMac. It shows how you can download and stream the song on your computer or iOS device. When you select a certain song, it does not get downloaded to the library but instead is redirected to the temporary cache of your device.

Apple may have set it in this manner for design reasons more than its possible legal issues since it has already acquired formal streaming rights. This is according to a music label who confirmed the acquisition of Apple for the streaming rights. This may also be because Apple does not trust several carriers to render a flawless streaming experience to users and that a simultaneous style of listening and downloading can be a much better option.

However, this can also raise some contradictions. If the songs still need to be downloaded, then this still require participation of the carriers. Also other music streaming services and applications just like Spotify also cache the songs it plays. So what could be the difference in the implementation of Apple?

Some experts believe that this is Apple’s way of revolutionizing the concept of music streaming. We are just wondering why Apple did not want to explain it this way. What do you think? Are they up to something new again when it comes to this feature?

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Secret Features of iOS5 Beta Released and Revealed

Posted by iunlock under News on Monday Jun 13, 2011

It was just recently that Apple released their very first beta version of the iOS 5 to the developers of the iOS program. This iOS 5 is made available for units like iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4th Generation, iPad, iPad 2 and the iPod Touch 3rd Generation. It was during the WWDC 2011 Keynote that Apple unveiled this new program which includes more than a hundred features for the users of iPod Touch, iPad, and the iPhone.

 

Majority of its features include the Notification Center, several Reminders, the integration of Twitter, and the iMessage Newsstand. They have also made improvements on their applications like the camera, photo, the mobile browser of Safari, Calendar, and Mail. With this program too, the users need not have the help of a computer.

 

The iSO5 offers a lot of choices on the alerts for calendar, emails and the additional option to even buy more. With this, you can also be able to make several keyboard shortcuts in replacement of the customized phrases. For example, when you type omw, it will appear to be On my way! instead on the screen. There is already an update option of the software for the freshest OS and it has the sync button already for wireless transfer to iTunes.

 

It is interesting to find too the capacity to print out the maps from the said application along with the convenience and efficiency of tweeting photos that it displays the images on Twitter with the help of Photobucket.

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