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Apple releases iBooks 1.1.1

by Michael Grothaus (Jul 20th, 2010)

Following on the heels of the iTunes 9.2.1 update that was released yesterday, Apple has updated the iBooks app to version 1.1.1, which includes "substantial performance improvements when reading PDFs." While the new version of iBooks still lacks ...

iTunes Store now shows Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer reviews for movies

by Michael Grothaus (May 20th, 2010)

Apple has quietly added Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer ratings and reviews for movies in the iTunes Store. Rotten Tomatoes is one of the most popular movie review sites on the web. It uses reviews from top critics and film societies to produce ...

iPhone devsugar: 9 ways Apple can improve App Store

by Erica Sadun (Mar 23rd, 2010)

Apple has been working hard to make the App Store a better experience for both customers and developers. Recently, they introduced in-app purchases, scheduled sale prices for apps, provided review status indicators in iTunes Connect, and introduced ...

Report: RIAA pressured Apple into creating iTunes LP

by Mike Schramm (Mar 9th, 2010)

This feature over at GigaOM has quite a few interesting insights about the iTunes LP program -- while Apple sells it wholeheartedly as "the visual experience of the record album," it appears the story behind the story is not quite so clean. ...

Apple pressuring music publishers over Amazon Daily Deal

by Dave Caolo (Mar 4th, 2010)

Amazon has used low-priced, exclusive "Daily Deals" to promote its MP3 store successfully, and Apple's not happy about it. In fact, the iTunes team is trying to talk publishers out of participating. According to Billboard, participating labels ...

Leaked file might be the first promo list of iPad books

by Michael Rose (Feb 25th, 2010)

The authors include Stephen King, Timothy Ferris, Malcolm Gladwell, Dubner & Leavitt, Kennedy, Agassi, Palin and Beck. There's bestselling fiction (The Lovely Bones), fact (A History Of Modern Britain) and autobiography (Wishful Drinking). The ...

Apple announces winner of the 10 billion songs promotion

by Dave Caolo (Feb 25th, 2010)

Just yesterday Apple's iTunes store reached a huge milestone -- 10 billion songs sold. That's an incredible number. In fact, it's almost as incredible as the prize that Mr. Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia received for buying the magic song. As his ...

10 billionth iTunes download going down today

by Mike Schramm (Feb 24th, 2010)

Obama Pacman has done the math, and they claim that the 10 billionth song download on iTunes (which Apple is paying out a $10k gift card for) is going to happen today, February 24th. So if you've been waiting to buy some music, today's the day to do ...

Gameloft says they've got iPhone locked down

by Mike Schramm (Feb 20th, 2010)

Gameloft is one of the bigger iPhone-specific (or at least mobile-specific) game developers out there, and in fact they're so big, they tell Mobile Entertainment that they're not scared of their development partner Ubisoft and other big game ...

App Store categories get browser pages

by Mike Schramm (Feb 19th, 2010)

Apple has apparently taken another step towards bringing iTunes to the browser, as you can now browse actual categories of the iTunes store right in regular HTML rather than having to click over into iTunes. There's still no support for television ...

First look at Final Fantasy on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Feb 15th, 2010)

Now that Plants vs. Zombies is out on the App Store, the new hotness to wait for is going to be Square's Final Fantasy. Courtesy of the guys over at Touch Arcade (who I'm disappointed I didn't get to meet at Macworld), here's the first trailer and ...

App Store devsugar: Browser-based previews and URL tricks

by Erica Sadun (Feb 5th, 2010)

TUAW reader Gabby tipped us off this morning that Apple has expanded its new browser-based iTunes previews to include App Store offerings. Sure enough, I pasted a standard App Store URL for Apple's Remote application into Safari and was treated to ...

Rumor: Apple's TV subscription plans stall on "tablet eve"

by Dave Caolo (Jan 26th, 2010)

With less than 24 hours to go before the tablet's likely introduction, the New York Times is reporting that the TV networks are resisting Apple's proposed subscription model of distribution. For $30 per month, Apple would supposedly allow customers ...

Mauritius to Apple: Thanks for the iPhones, can we haz iTunes Store?

by Steven Sande (Jan 17th, 2010)

Recently, the people of the island republic of Mauritius have been able to purchase the iPhone 3G and 3GS through mobile phone provider Orange, but there's one major problem -- there's no access to an iTunes Store. This brings back memories of the ...

Donate to the Red Cross Haiti relief effort via iTunes

by Dave Caolo (Jan 16th, 2010)

The people of Haiti are enduring the devastating catastrophe brought about by this week's earthquake. Relief is finally beginning to arrive but there is an overwhelming amount of work to do. You can support the American Red Cross by making a ...

Apple adds 30-second samples to browser-based iTunes previews

by Dave Caolo (Jan 7th, 2010)

Last November, Apple launched browser-based iTunes previews, which gave customers information on a song or artist before pushing them out to the iTunes Store. It's a handy, welcome change. And now this week, they've added 30-second song samples to ...