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St-st-studios

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
iTunes | 2 Comments »

More studios may be coming to iTunes.

Apple adds PBS shows to iTunes

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
iTunes | 3 Comments »

Geek that he is, the Macalope is excited to see that you can now download individual episodes of NOVA (and other PBS shows) from the iTunes Store.  At first the $8 price tag seemed a little hefty, but the same shows on DVD are $18 from Amazon.
The Macalope wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the largest iTunes [...]

Death by anecdote

Friday, October 6th, 2006
Silly Pundits, iTunes | 15 Comments »

Sven Rafferty predicts CDs will kill the iTunes Store.

Zune reaches critical mass of craptacularosity

Friday, September 29th, 2006
Microsoft, iPod, iTunes | 6 Comments »

The Zune: currently no threat, if you didn’t know that already.

Your ad here.

Monday, September 18th, 2006
Apple Corporate, iTunes | 2 Comments »

Coming soon to www.apple.com: an “Advertise on this site” link?
The Macalope can’t wait for Apple to put up something about Bonjour and have GoogleAds dump a bunch of “Vacation in France” ads on them.
Now you’ll know how we feel!
ADDENDUM: Another thought on this: ad-based subscription service for iTunes? It’s not the Macalope’s [...]

Silly report prompts silly conclusions

Monday, September 18th, 2006
Silly Pundits, iTunes | 5 Comments »

Jupiter Research report draws some specious conclusions.

Paging Robert Morgan

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Hardware, Wireless, iTunes | 7 Comments »

The iTV announcement takes the Macalope back.