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Apple has announced that it will cut the price it charges for music downloads in the UK from its iTunes music store within the next six months.
The cut will bring the UK into line with the charges in the rest of Europe.
Apple currently charges 79 pence per download in the UK, compared with 99 euro cents (74p) in the rest of Europe.
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LOS ANGELES — An iPod owner is suing Apple Inc., claiming it restricts consumer choice and has monopolized the digital music market because its popular line of music players and its iTunes online music store are not compatible with rival music devices.
The lawsuit, filed Dec. 31 in U.S. District Court in Northern California, seeks class-action status and is the latest of several that claim Cupertino-based Apple has an unfair grip on the online music market.
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Apple faces yet more flack from the Mac faithful over the discovery that the operating system won’t run the latest version of Java. It’s one of several beefs relating to the OS X upgrade that is sparking vitriol among the normally docile crowd.
Leopard may have 300 new features, but it is unable to run Java 1.6, even though that same version is available for both Windows and Linux. That has taken some Mac users by surprise, including some on this user forum on Apple’s website. Several users there say 1.6 is so central to the development work they do on a daily basis that they will be forced to use an OS other than Leopard if it remains incompatible. Continue reading »
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Only days after the official launch of Mac OS X Leopard, the software is already said to be running on PCs based on Windows. Members of OSx86 Scene claim to have hacked the OS, and are providing detailed install guides and troubleshooting. Leopard is reported to be partially crippled without Mac hardware, however, most notably in the lack of Wi-Fi support, which may render the OS useless for some. Continue reading »
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Apple has posted a QuickTime version of the new user-created iPod touch television ad that began airing on Sunday evening. Based on student-created advertisement that was posted to Youtube, the ad spot was made “broadcast-ready” by Apple’s advertising agency, TBWA/Chiat/Day, according to an online report. The commercial features a fast-paced overview of the portable player song with “Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex,” The spot’s creator, Nick Haley, is an 18-year-old student and Apple fan in the UK who created the content and uploaded his video to YouTube. Continue reading »
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