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Apple Releases iTunes 10 With 'Ping' Social Networking for Music
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I was wondering something else too...
Let's say I have a friend. Now this friend has a lot of music - in fact he's been building his library since he was 13. Now, these days this friend buys all of his music, but when he was younger he might have downloaded some non-iTunes DRM content (for which he is very sorry and is slowly replacing with legit tunes). Now firstly, will this friends non-iTunes contentscrobble "ping"? Secondly, will this be a potential tool for the rights-management hounds to sniff out music terrorists?
Let's say I have a friend. Now this friend has a lot of music - in fact he's been building his library since he was 13. Now, these days this friend buys all of his music, but when he was younger he might have downloaded some non-iTunes DRM content (for which he is very sorry and is slowly replacing with legit tunes). Now firstly, will this friends non-iTunes content
Icon sucks!
The last one was bad and it just went from bad to worse.
Yeah what is up with that Icon?! It really, really (as many times as you can say really without getting tired or bored) sucks!!!!
The last one was bad and it just went from bad to worse.
Hit the green button in iTunes 9 and see where the traffic lights are placed for those complaining.
hehe True that.
Also, lots of people showing general symptoms of having a stick up their ass here today!
(Buh, fugly icon. Buh! Apple doing something new that lets their massive user base share their music life with the people they choose - outrageous!)I like everything about the new iTunes 10 I think. Not that it's a perfect app, but I like it, and I think Ping could be really good. I dislike the all-embracing nature of Facebook, so using Ping (while actually in the app I use for music) to share info about music sounds appealing.
Now, if they could only get the DL-links up..
learning from history class, the next OSX style was based on the current iTunes.
ugh.. maybe not.
aqua -> brushed metal -> marble? -> traffic lights ;p
Hit the green button in iTunes 9 and see where the traffic lights are placed for those complaining.
Thank you! I just read the last 5 pages looking to see if that was mentioned yet. The vertical buttons have been around forever, just not in the default view.
Yes, I know that Apple makes money from it, but it's still sad to see yet another social network emerge. I hope they'll all die one day...
I agree. A year or so after iTunes was introduced, WSJ's Walt Mossberg wrote that iTunes was shouldn't be underestimated, that it was so much more than a music management system--that it was actually a complex and powerful bit of software that would in the years to come dazzle people with new opportunities (think App store) for Apple.
He was right, of course. I see Ping in the same way. It is apple's foothold on the social networking universe. People will start out organizing in friend circles--there WILL be one for Tea Partiers, for example, organized at first around patriotic/jingoistic music, depending on your pov, and other circles for people of other lifestyle/political persuasions. Eventually the content and capabilities of Ping will broaden and Apple will be bragging about its market share as a social network compared to facebook and the rest.
If you guys hate the icon, just replace it with an older icon, or an icon of your choice! It's really easy, Apple has a support article about it: http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/customize/6/
Yes, my favourite. You see, we lease this back from the company we sold it to, that way it comes under our monthly current budget and NOT the capital account.
Any new formats being supported with iTunes 10? or is this just a visual change with some more useless social junk?
The app itself is a 32-bit app, but the drivers for iPhones and iPods were written for 64-bit compatibility.
Let me guess, Ping uses your iTunes store account? So, for those of us (like my wife and I) who share the same iTunes store account (so that we can share purchased apps on all our iOS devices), are out of luck with having separate Ping accounts (unless we want the constant hassle of logging out and logging in depeneding on what we want to do in iTunes).
Thankfully there isn't a lot of new features in iTunes as it is for 10.5 + only
which I can't run.
Why is it that Apple supports XP but not 10.4?
which I can't run.
Why is it that Apple supports XP but not 10.4?
God forbid two people who live together might share the same account!
Soon when a child is born they'll get not just a birth certificate but a Facebook account and an iTunes giftcard...
After initial shock at the traffic light transposition, I'm getting the reasoning. Reducing the window's height by ditching the title bar is very nice, especially on the smaller laptops. Maybe this is in preparation for an 11.6" Air .
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