Apple Is Stealing Android People with AirPlay
For many Windows devotees, the first experience with an Apple product came in the form of the Windows iPod. For starters, Steve Jobs made sure that the Mac faithful were the first ones to use the iPod, iTunes, and even the iTunes Music Store – in fact, he resisted making them available on Windows at…
How Streaming Music Will Change Culture for the Better
Forget, for the moment, about how much Spotify pays out to artists. Focus instead on the nature of those payouts. In the olden days (i.e. 20 years ago), recording artists had to convince you to fall for their music once – just long enough to buy a CD. Since the inception of pop music as…
Skifta Launches Engine to Sync Content Across Devices
Music fans, and everyone else with a smartphone in their pockets for that matter, face a big problem: We have lots of stuff; it’s all on different machines; and we want it to be on other machines. Oh, and we don’t want to get an engineering degree in order for that to happen. You might…
Nine Supercharged iOS Players to Power Up Your Music Collection
Music fans who were reluctant to replace boomboxes, turntables, and shelves of physical media with digital music players and spreadsheet-like displays of their music collection have plenty of new reasons to change their minds and get onboard. Or, if you embraced digital music from the get-go, well, now you have new reasons to justify your…