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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Suppliers of Apple Preparing For Launch of Two New Devices This Year

Posted by iunlock under News on Monday Jul 11, 2011

Everyone is just eager to have their hands on the release of the so called next generation iPhone since it was not unraveled during the WWDC 2011. There have been wide speculations with Apple planning to launch the iPhone 5 on the latter part of fall along with the iOS 5 release as well. There have even been some reports that the suppliers in the chain of manufacturers of Apple have been constantly preparing for the launch of two new gadgets, the iPhone 5 and the iPad 3 by October.

The mentioned companies that are part of their supply chain were the Taiwan-based ones. These have been preparing the materials that will be needed for producing the two major devices to be launched. It will most likely have its debut by September and hit the market officially by October. These will both be produced in tiny numbers by August until it picks up in the coming months ahead.

There are news that iPad 3 will still be way thinner and more lightweight just when you think iPad 2 is the best they can ever come up of. It will have a resolution made up of 250 dpi that is twice that of the two previous versions. This is not their first try on the speculation that iPad 3 will be released this year regardless of the very early launch of the iPad 2 just this year as well. Will you upgrade to these new devices once they come out in the market?

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