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End of iTunes downloads “not an if, but when”

Posted on May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 by Jules Wang

Revenues from streaming music have overtaken revenues from download purchases. And it took so little time for that to happen.In 2012, Apple made $3.9 billion in revenue from iTunes music downloads, the most it’s ever made from them. Since then, download numbers have fallen off: a 16 percent drop-off last year, maybe 25 to 30 percent this year. The tumble could end up with Apple reaping only $600 million from downloads in 2019.The numbers are part of the conversation Apple executives are ...

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One year in, Apple Music will get an interface refresh at WWDC [UPDATED with specifics]

Posted on May 4, 2016May 4, 2016 by Jules Wang

This year’s WWDC will come nearly a year after Apple Music launched service. The app had a launch experience that allowed users to tailor their own tastes for Apple’s algorithms to conform to in order to ferry over suggestions that those users might like. But while it has been

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Apple outage takes down App Stores, iTunes, iMessage for an hour

Posted on November 18, 2015November 18, 2015 by Jules Wang

As if the Mac App Store certificate issue wasn’t enough for Apple this week, it seems that a service outage has taken down several of Apple’s online services this evening.Those officially include the App Store, Apple TV, the iBooks Store, iTunes Match, the iTunes Store, the Mac App Store and Radio. There were also unlisted issues going on with Apple’s Online Store as Down Detector has registered a spike in problem reports for the latter.

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