Filed under: iTS , Retail , iTunes , Apple This feature over at GigaOM has quite a few interesting insights about the iTunes LP program — while Apple sells it wholeheartedly as “the visual experience of the record album,” it appears the story behind the story is not quite so clean. According to an anonymous source in the industry (note, not Apple themselves), the service didn’t come from Cupertino.
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Report: RIAA pressured Apple into creating iTunes LP
Filed under: Switchers , Productivity , Mac 101 One of the adjustments those new to the Mac need to make is to familiarize themselves with the Command key. Although I switch hit and use Windows at work and a Mac when I’m not working, I’ve always preferred it over Control. Its proximity next to the space bar allows me to use my thumb, as opposed to my pinky finger with the Control key, for keyboard shortcuts
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Mac 101: Going Commando with Command-key shortcuts in Mac OS X
Perhaps stirred by Apple’s claim of being one of the biggest mobile device companies in the world, Sony is planning a number of new devices and services to compete with Apple’s iTunes Store, iPhone, and iPad. That strategy will revolve around what’s currently being called Sony Online Service, along with smartphone and tablet-like devices meant to connect to it, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report . Sony plans to launch its online media platform, aimed squarely at Apple’s iTunes Store, later this month
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Sony plans new mobile initiative to take on Apple
An unexpected dialog box in iTunes may be a sign that Apple will soon allow developers to offer upgrade pricing for iPhone apps. Developer Fraser Speirs was warned that the “discounted price is only available to customers who own a previous version” of an item when he tried updating all his apps via iTunes. Developers of desktop software typically offer a discount to users who have paid for a previous version of software when they upgrade to the next major release.
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Apple may soon enable paid iPhone app upgrades (Updated)
When it comes to reducing carbon emissions, most of the attention has focused on new technologies like renewable power and electric vehicles, as well as their associated costs. But study after study shows that we can save both energy and a significant amount of cash through the use of energy efficiency technology that’s already on the market. A Policy Forum in today’s issue of Science suggests that the bottleneck isn’t so much technological or economic as it is behavioral, and argues that the US needs to start performing tests of behavior-oriented programs
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Behavioral efforts, not money, will drive energy efficiency
Filed under: Retail , Software , Internet , iPad John Siracusa drew my attention to an article by Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price , in which he says that the company actually plans to keep their hardcover/paperback separation even while selling ebooks. While new hardcover ebooks will sell for $14.99 and $12.99 (”a tremendous discount from the price of the printed hardcover books”), the company will aim to sell “ebook editions of paperback new releases” for as low as $6.99. As Siracusa goes on to say, “now let us all sit back and ponder the concept of ‘paperback’ and ‘hardcover’ ebooks.” Macmillan is sticking with an old pricing scheme even in a brand new marketplace.
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Macmillan trying to sell readers ‘hardcover’ ebooks
Filed under: Hardware , Apple , Apple TV , App Store , iPad Michael Pachter is probably the most visible gaming industry analyst out there — while he’s not always right about his predictions and insight on the video game industry, he does usually know what he’s talking about, and he’s definitely got the ear of a lot of investors. And so when he says that Apple is planning to turn the Apple TV into a game console, people listen.
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Pachter: Apple will have a game console soon
Filed under: iTunes , Mac 101 As Apple removes sexually suggestive apps from the App Store (and is evidently preparing a Red Light District for the future ), users are wondering how they can protect their kids from certain content. With that in mind, here’s an overview of the parental controls in iTunes. Note that the screenshot at right is from iTunes 9.0.3
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Mac 101: How to use the iTunes parental controls
