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Daily Update for March 21, 2013

by Steven Sande (Mar 21st, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

iCloud, Dropbox, Amazon top US cloud services

by Dave Caolo (Mar 21st, 2013)

According to a study recently published by Strategy Analytics, Apple's iCloud and iTunes Match are tops among US consumer cloud services. The study polled 2,300 Americans and found, among other things, that 27 percent of respondents have used iCloud and/or iTunes Match. Further, 17 percent have ...

A year with iTunes Match: How would you fix it?

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 19th, 2012)

Last week, Macworld took an in-depth look at the idiosyncrasies of using iTunes Match a year after the service had its belated launch. And, with this morning's outage, it doesn't appear that things are getting any easier for the service. It didn't help that an already rough road got even rockier ...

iTunes Match down for many

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 19th, 2012)

After a brief outage yesterday that affected iMessage and FaceTime, Apple's iTunes match service is now apparently down for some iOS and Mac users this morning. As noticed by AppleInsider, iTunes Match content stored in the cloud just stalls at 0:00 without any error message. Apple's iCloud ...

SuperSync 5 will add support for iTunes Match

by Mike Schramm (Oct 2nd, 2012)

SuperSync is a really impressive app that you've probably already heard about if you've ever tried to keep iTunes libraries between various computers synced together. It basically scans your iTunes library as you add to it, and then tracks different libraries across Macs and PCs to make sure ...

Users reporting a big bag of hurt with iTunes Match and iOS 6

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 26th, 2012)

I don't use iTunes Match and I probably never will. I have seen a constant stream of complaints from people who use the service, with their music libraries unceremoniously deleted, re-downloaded and deleted again -- and that's just one of the many issues I've seen since the service began. Now iOS ...

Apple rolls out iTunes movies in the Cloud to UK, Australia, Canada, more

by Michael Grothaus (Jul 19th, 2012)

Earlier today, Apple rolled out iTunes Match to Hungary and Poland, but now it appears the company has also started expanding iCloud's media offerings to countries that already have the iTunes Match services. Here in the UK, Apple has expanded its iTunes in the Cloud offerings to include movies ...

iTunes Store opens in Hong Kong, Taiwan and 10 other Asia-Pacific territories

by Steven Sande (Jun 27th, 2012)

Our Apple-loving compatriots on the west side of the Pacific Ocean have been able to purchase the latest in iPhone and iPad software from the App Store for a while, but believe it or not, they've been shut out of the iTunes Store. Apple has just opened the virtual iTunes storefront in a dozen ...

iTunes Match book delivers useful guidance in minutes

by Michael Rose (Apr 4th, 2012)

Writer Lex Friedman has covered Apple's iTunes Match cloud music service for Macworld, his home base, but if you want all your Match instruction in one convenient ebook, you're in luck. Friedman has written Sams Teach Yourself iTunes Match in 10 Minutes, a full guide that provides all the ...

Apple reportedly working on "adaptive streaming" for iCloud music

by Steven Sande (Feb 28th, 2012)

The Guardian is reporting that Apple is working on a new method of "adaptive streaming" for music stored in iCloud that will "adjust itself to the bandwidth and storage available on the receiving device." The UK paper is less clear on exactly how that new format will be implemented, saying that it ...

Daily Update for February 22, 2012

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 22nd, 2012)

Apple reportedly readying iTunes Match for Japan

by Mike Schramm (Feb 22nd, 2012)

Japanese Mac site Macotakara notes that the Japanese version of iTunes has been updated with a "Purchased" tab via iTunes in the Cloud, which also suggests that Apple is about to launch an official version of iTunes Match in Japan. iCloud has been up and running in Japan for some time, but only ...

iTunes Match to open to more Latin American countries, Europe

by Dave Caolo (Jan 17th, 2012)

A check of the iTunes Match availability page shows that Apple has launched the service in 19 new countries, with focus on Latin America and Europe. As of today, Apple has enabled iTunes Match for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, ...

iTunes Match (actually) going live internationally

by Chris Rawson (Dec 15th, 2011)

iTunes Match went partially live internationally in several markets on December 15, with iTunes accounts in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Canada, and other countries offering iTunes Match signups in users' account preferences. However, that launch appeared to be premature, since iTunes Match ...

Apple refunds iTunes Match purchases for international users after premature 'launch'

by Chris Rawson (Dec 15th, 2011)

Although options to sign up for iTunes Match started appearing in several international markets yesterday, many suspected that the launch was premature since iTunes Match wasn't showing up on the main page of respective countries' iTunes Stores. It turns out the "launch" was indeed premature, ...