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iTunes WiFi Music Store Announced - One More Thing...

spicoli said:
So, it sounds like you can download a song and "store" it on your iPhone or iPod touch. Does anyone think that this feature of "storing" a downloaded file on your iPhone will lead to the ability to download and "store" lets say attachments in mail?
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Well you can already store attachments by just not deleting the e-mail. Right now, what you're looking for would be the snowball-fight-in-hell iPhone firmware update.

Seriously, if they do add a file system for other types of data files to iPhone, it won't come directly out of the WiFi Music Store. It will be a later feature added if Apple thinks demand warrants it. A standard file system for spreadsheets or what have you would complicate the iPhone and I think they're very, very touchy -- pardon the pun -- about complicating the use and interface of iPhone.
 
I think Apple could introduce a very simple and easy to use GUI for a file system in the iPhone.

Essentially a folder for each type of file. Music/Document/PDF/Excel/Photo etc. You receive an email with a .xls attachment. You can touch 'Save' on the interface and it automatically goes into the Excel folder.

For attaching files to emails, you touch 'Attach' and an interface similar to the iPod list view comes into play. Touch the type of document you want to attach and they are all there listed... or even Cover Flow.


As for podcasts in the WiFi store... this would be really nice but if its not implemented you can just visit the site of the podcast in question and stream it there in Safari.
 
imnotsayin said:
Anyone else notice that on Apple's "Apple Hot News" RSS feed under the headline "Introducing the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store" it begins "Starting today, you can enter the new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store" ??

http://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss

Its been up all day.
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And I bet you can, too, if you work for Apple and have a pre-release iPod touch or the new iPhone firmware update already installed. For the rest of us, we'll be able to join the fun when iPod touch people get their iPod touches and on the same day we iPhone people drop our iPhones in to sync and up pops the firmware update.

I think some PR type just had this all written and posted it too soon when they meant to post the other piece, the one pre-announcing the WiFi music store. But you bet it's probably already running: they want people who are getting review units to be able to try it out as part of their reviews of the iPod touch.
 
voxcon said:
Nice, simple answer. Care to explain why to the original poster or anyone else who is concerned?
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Because even if you are on an open network with not so much as WEP encryption -- and usually open networks have some sort encryption; they just give you the encryption key and let you use the service for free -- your Apple ID and password or sent, but I don't think iTunes sends in the clear (unencrypted). I think it encrypts the login information whether or not the WiFi network does or not. In all other login boxes, Mac OS X tells you if your user/pass will be sent in the clear and iTunes does not. Anyway, no credit card data are whatever is sent unless you going in and update it during the session; perhaps the WiFi Store application will not even allow it, but I think it will probably give you access to your account settings.

People could of course capture the songs you download but since their computers aren't authorize to play them, they'd be useless.

Anyway, many, many people have been using open WiFi networks to buy from the iTunes Store via laptops for about as long as there has been an iTunes Store. And I've heard of not a single issue.
 
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