Affiliate Programs and Affiliate Reviews
Because Apple has this pesky rule against running apps on iOS devices that direct you away from Apple’s ecosystem to buy competing products without using Apple e-commerce engines to handle the transaction — and shuffle 30 percent of the sale to Apple’s bank account — it’s has been a bit harder to buy Amazon.com-based Kindle e-books to read on an iOS device through the Kindle app.
I thought for sure that Apple’s next big media splash without Steve Jobs would be all about an Apple iPad 3. So I was surprised to hear about an upcoming media-focused event slated for the end of this month in New York. There’s a smattering of reports that don’t actually directly cite anyone on the record, but the nature of the reports and event lead me to believe they’re basically true.
I’ve been following Google Music with a bit of interest, starting with the beta. I must admit, though, that my interest is pretty much just academic, on the off chance that Google might actually announce a new service that’s not only easy to use and ubiquitous, but also so compelling that I had to jump on board. The Google Music shown Wednesday is not it.
I’ve been following Google Music with a bit of interest, starting with the beta. I must admit, though, that my interest is pretty much just academic, on the off chance that Google might actually announce a new service that’s not only easy to use and ubiquitous, but also so compelling that I had to jump on board. The Google Music shown Wednesday is not it.
Apple has released a new edition of iTunes, version 10.5.1, which includes its belated iTunes Match service. iTunes Match scans a user’s library to form a comprehensive list of the user’s songs, including music that was not purchased from the Apple iTunes store. If it finds a match in iTunes, Apple then provides the with a cloud-based version of the same song from iTunes.