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 […]

To some misguided pundits, Apple’s supposed “Antennagate” scandal last year is an episode they will never live down. Even though other smartphones exhibit signal loss if you hold them the wrong way, meaning that you manage to cover the antennas with those big bad bags of water we call hands, the iPhone 4 got the […]

I suppose it’s going to be a long time before we stop talking about the best-selling biography of Steve Jobs from author Walter Isaacson. It’s filled with fascinating details, and tantalizing clues. Consider Apple’s “hobby,” the Apple TV, which continues to be a product in search of an end game. Now the claim that Jobs […]