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Perhaps they're moving away from "Tunes"? It was a music player. Now it's a music, video, book, and app store and media center, as well as a connection hub for all of your accessory devices. I have a feeling that whatever they announce tomorrow will only be a proliferation of this trend. "iTunes" has got a ton of brand awareness, but we've seen them appropriately drop "Computer" from their company name and "Phone" fr…
Perhaps they're moving away from "Tunes"? It was a music player. Now it's a music, video, book, and app store and media center, as well as a connection hub for all of your accessory devices. I have a feeling that whatever they announce tomorrow will only be a proliferation of this trend. "iTunes" has got a ton of brand awareness, but we've seen them appropriately drop "Computer" from their company name and "Phone" fr…
My money is on Apple's music streaming service, but it seems awfully quick since the LaLa acquisition.
Apple already does DRM'd video streaming, and that's a much more difficult problem.
My money is on Apple's music streaming service, but it seems awfully quick since the LaLa acquisition.
Is music streaming really that hard a service, that you would need to acquire someone to figure it out? Apple already does DRM'd video streaming, and that's a much more difficult problem.
This must either be syncing devices over the air or a music subscription service. I think the "never forget" part is important. You will "never forget" to sync your device, ever again. Your computer will "never forget" your music, because it's stored in the cloud.
It gets especially bad once you add multiple iDevices and use them for the same purpose over different time spans.
Example: If I get home and want to continue listening to the current podcast on the iPad, I have to first sync my iPhone and then the iPad.
And if, on the next day, I want to finish the podcast on the iPhone, I have to remember to sync both devices again (iPad first) or I'll have to use the awful time slider on the iPhone to find the correct play position again.
Same goes for Audiobooks where it's even worse due to their length and sometimes more monotonous content (makes it harder to find the correct play position, or might spoil the content if you are really unlucky and skip ahead too far).
And don't get me started about the fact that at least my iTunes install insists on either installing all new iPhone-apps on my iPad or deleting all apps I installed directly from the App Store on the device, depending on how the checkbox is set.
This ugly mess has to end.
It worked "ok" (wireless podcast sync would always have been nice) while we had only one device. It became totally broken once we had multiple devices.
Yeah - what a luxury issue to have, but it's still totally non-apple and doesn't at all match their usually very slick user experience.
This must either be syncing devices over the air or a music subscription service. I think the "never forget" part is important. You will "never forget" to sync your device, ever again. Your computer will "never forget" your music, because it's stored in the cloud.
Being forced to use iTunes to sync Music, Podcasts and Audiobooks (and play position!) is the most ridiculous and non-Apple user experience I've ever seen of any Apple product. It gets especially bad once you add multiple iDevices and use them for the same purpose over different time spans. Example: If I get home and want to continue listening to the current podcast on the iPad, I have to first sync my iPhone and the…