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The Towson Hack: The mystery of vanishing iTunes credit >> Macworld
September 2011, but possibly still going on:
Many customers whose store credit was stolen noted that the purchases centered on a handful of apps from specific developers. One of those developers was “gao jing,” the name behind apps like Expert Guide for Black Ops, Cheats Guide for Black Ops, Weapons Guide for Black Ops, and Game Guide for New Vegas. Notably, none of those apps remain in the App Store as of this writing; however, Apple declined to comment on the reason for their removal from the store. Other customers noted that the purchased apps on their accounts were all from other developers, including “Hongbin Suo,” “lane ma,” “Yang Yun,” “KAMAGAMES,” and “Lakoo.” Many of the purchased apps, or the companies behind them, appeared to be Chinese in origin.
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10 weeks ago by guardiantech
Why won't iTunes display files by path? >> William Vambenepe
He bought himself a Mac. (Interesting that even Oracle engineers are buying Macs.) He has lots of music files. "The next issue is that, within iTunes, you cannot organize your music based on the directory structure. All it cares about is the various metadata fields. You can’t even display the file name or the file path in the main iTunes window.

"Leave it to Apple to create a Unix operating system which hates files."

This is like arranging your music based on the colour of the album covers. Fair enough, but how would you deal with the customer support complaint from this user? Happily, though he flirted with writing a Python script to solve it, he wrote an Automator task (high-level scripting) to do it. Including a shell script with regex.

He's not impressed with iTunes, though.
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december 2011 by guardiantech
Apple TV Effort Said to Be Led By ITunes Creator >> Bloomberg
"Jeff Robbin, who helped create the iPod in addition to the iTunes media store, is now guiding Apple’s internal development of the new TV effort, said the people, who declined to be identified because his role isn’t public."
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october 2011 by guardiantech
Massachusetts Attorney General, victim of an iTunes scam, says she'll demand answers >> threatpost
"Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said on Tuesday that her office would be inquiring into long-standing complaints about fraudulent purchases that leverage Apple's popular online music store.<br />
"In a lunchtime address to business and technology leaders in Massachusetts, Coakley said she was a victim of identity theft in recent months, and that her stolen credit card information was used to make fraudulent iTunes purchases. When asked (by Threatpost) about whether such fraud constitutes a reportable event under the Bay State's strict data breach notification law, Coakley said that her office would be looking into that question and demanding answers from Cupertino, California based Apple, which has steadfastly refused to comment, or report the breaches to Massachusetts regulators."<br />
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Why is the identity theft Apple's fault?
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september 2011 by guardiantech
Apple's iTunes Match service uses downloads, not streaming >> AllThingsD
Well, it isn't streaming, except that you can listen to it while it's downloading. And it's only sort of downloaded, as it might be in a cache. Anyhow.
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august 2011 by guardiantech
Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA >> CNET Blogs
"You're gonna need a bigger remote." Next: Shakespeare rendered as an EULA?
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june 2011 by guardiantech
10 Major Apple iTunes Annoyances >> PCWorld
Can't speak to the performance on Windows (some people in the comments say it's fine, others don't) but some of the 'annoyances' seem to rank so low it's puzzling. Syncing automatically is more annoying than drag and drop? You can't delete a file in a 'smart playlist' (which is essentially a list of symlinks, so - obviously)? 
charlesarthur  itunes  apple  from delicious
may 2011 by guardiantech
Does Spotify Really Want To Be An iTunes Killer? >> Forrester Blogs
Music analyst Mark Mulligan: "The iTunes app is outdated and bloated. It’s long overdue competitive disruption. Spotify’s music app is clean and elegant, just like iTunes used to be. With Facebook integration, a celestial jukebox, music management and even device syncing (of sorts) Spotify may actually stand a half-decent chance of getting many of its iTunes-using customers to start using Spotify as their main music app.    <br />
"But despite the PR, Spotify is not actually trying to be an iTunes Killer at all. They’re trying to learn how to co-exist, using the iTunes ecosystem as their habitat. Almost a parasitical co-existence: if the host dies the parasite dies too. The fate of iPods, iPhones and iPads is inextricably linked with iTunes."
charlesarthur  music  itunes  spotify  from delicious
may 2011 by guardiantech

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