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A Look at Apple’s Latest iTunes Update With Redesigned Mini Player and More
As bloated as it might be, Apple isn’t forgetting about iTunes. Cupertino released the latest update to its music/video/movies/app manager and player today.
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Apple’s app store hits 50 billion downloads
Apple announced Wednesday that the App store has hit 50 billion app downloads, a singificant milestone for the company only a few months after it announced 40 billion downloads back in January.
Apple’s app store downloads and downloads from the Google Play store became roughly even last fall, as Erica Ogg wrote recently, and then in the first quarter of 2013, Google pulled ahead in sheer number of mobile app downloads worldwide. However, Apple got 74 cents for every dollar spent on apps during the that quarter, according to a report by Canalys published in April, and the 50 billion downloads now puts Apple back with a slight lead.
The company announced the number of downloads on the first day of Google’s I/O conference, as Google announced that its Google Play store has seen 48 billion app downloads since launch in late 2008. However, it’s good to remember that app downloads only tell part of the story — someone could download an app and never use it again.
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ICYMI Podcasts: Chrome apps, smart power companies and the end of Apple’s skeuomorphism
This week’s GigaOM podcasts covered a wide range of topics, starting with the GigaOM Chrome Show. Chris Albrecht tells everyone how he really feels about Samsung’s low-cost Chromebook in addition to the Chrome OS software from Google.
On the Internet of Things podcast, Stacey Higginbotham chats with Austin Energy on how the company manages electricity price fluctuations with technology. And on the GigaOM Weekly Wrapup podcast, the focus is on potential iOS design changes from Apple: Should we say good-bye to realistic physical representations in software?
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Why Apple’s cheaper iPhone might be mid-range, not bargain bin
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Keith Richards: Apple’s iPod shortchanges customers
Headbands and white headphones just don't go together, do they?
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Keith Richards wearing white headphones would be like Josh Groban wearing a skirt.
Or Steven Tyler wearing men’s clothing.
Somehow, it wouldn’t seem right.
Fortunately, it is unlikely to happen, because the Rolling Stone who once fell out of a tree has revealed he doesn’t own an iPod.
Indeed, as the Associated Press reports, Richards believes that Apple’s song-storing machine shortchanges those who truly love music.
The ribald and rollingly drunk will suggest that, after so many years of playing noisy music and ingesting uplifting substances, it’s astonishing that Richards can hear at all.
However, he insisted that he is deeply committed to more vintage means of music listening.
The AP quotes him as saying: “I still use CDs or records actually. Sometimes cassettes. It has much better sound; a much better sound than digital.”
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The After Math: Exploring Glass, Apple’s cash and Nintendo’s no-go keynote
Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week’s tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages
We’ve been getting our first unfiltered experiences with Google Glass this week, which makes it the perfect time to go over some of the salient points up until now. At the same time, Apple sold more hardware, more apps and made even more money — it was largely another good quarter for the Cupertino coffers. Add in a million-second game show and there are more than enough numbers to play around with in this week’s After Math.
How Apple’s Developer Conference Grew Too Big for Its Own Developers
WWDC is to Apple Developers as Coachella is to filthy hipsters: It’s the year’s must-attend event. Except the World Wide Developer Conference is way harder to get into. There are more than 275,000 iOS developers registered in the U.S. alone–and …
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Apple’s WWDC starts June 10, will showcase new versions of iOS, OS X
Apple’s annual developers conference is set, and there will definitely be new software products on tap. On Wednesday morning the company said that its Worldwide Developers Conference will take place in San Francisco between June 10 and June 14. The main focus will be for developers learning about “the future of iOS and OS X,” according to the company’s press release.
“Our developers have had the most prolific and profitable year ever, and we’re excited to show them the latest advances in software technologies and developer tools to help them create innovative new apps,” SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller is quoted saying in the release. “We can’t wait to get new versions of iOS and OS X into their hands at WWDC.”
That is a good indication that iOS 7 and OS X 10.9 will be introduced. What’s not as good a bet is that we’ll see new hardware introduced at the show: on Wednesday during Apple’s quarterly earnings call CEO Tim Cook referenced the company’s future products coming “this fall and throughout 2014.”
Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. PT.
Apple said its developers have created 850,000 apps for its iOS App Store and have been paid $ 9 billion since the App Store opened in 2008.
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