I have anticipated the arrival of iTunes Match with somewhat mixed feelings. I’ve only purchased a modest number of tracks from iTunes over the years, and many of the gems in my aging CD collection date back to the earliest days of the classic rock era. I can already rip my songs and have them […]

Two weeks late, but definitely not dollars short, Apple’s iTunes Match service launched Monday. Accompanied with the release of iTunes 10.5.1, the new $24.99 a year service will provide up to 25,000 equivalents or matches to the tracks in your music library, courtesy of iCloud, which weren’t purchased from Apple. One published report has already […]

So a survey is published this week claiming that growth of Mac OS X Lion is unaccountably stagnating. A marketing firm, known as Chitika, has released the survey, which alleges that growth in Apple’s new OS, after an initial spurt, has slowed down seriously. If true, you’d think Apple has a problem, but are these […]

Only a short time after newly-minted CEO Tim Cook said Apple wouldn’t change, it was reported in the Wall Street Journal that, yes, there have been changes, at least from an organizational standpoint. Where Steve Jobs ran the operation by his gut, the story says, Cook, ever the engineer, has made moves towards making the […]