“In preparation for this week’s iTunes Festival at South by Southwest (SXSW) 2014, Apple has expanded its Apple TV lineup to include a revamped iTunes Festival channel that allows users to live stream the concert’s shows as well as view lineups and artist information,” Richard Padilla reports for MacRumors.
“The channel showcases artists who will be performing at the festival such as Kendrick Lamar, Coldplay, and Keith Urban, complete with artist bios and concert showtimes,” Padilla reports. “Apple also updated its iTunes Festival app for iOS last week, which introduced a new design and a revamped icon.”
More info and screenshots in the full article here.
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WoW, a new icon for iTunes! Now that that’s out the door, perhaps Cook can task someone to FIX THE EMAIL PROGRAM.
They haven’t shown much interest in Mail at all. Sad, because that sorry program could stand to be improved to a point where I’d willing to use it. I understand their devoting more resources to iTunes, though, because it has become more of a cash cow for them.
One would suppose that a company as large and rich as Apple would not need a triage strategy, but could address all its urgent needs through deployment of reinforcements. That appears not to be the case. Why? Is it a dearth of engineers, or of management priorities? Inquiring minds want to know.
Mail looks nice and when it works I like it a lot. Most are pure technical issues, such as Exchange compatibility. Folders just disappear in Mail when you have multiple Exchange accounts, whereas in Outlook the problems do not exist. Double line breaks, as used to be the problem with IE and FF when in FF you would see a line break and in IE is was not there and the fact that formatting is LOST in Mail when you do not start below the first line and as soon as you add a picture or so. hannahjs, if you use Exchange, what do you use as an alternative to Mail? I have family calendars that do not show up in Outlook……
I said years ago that executive compensation at Apple was excessive. While I wanted Cook to serve as CEO for a long time, I believed that the hundreds of $M in deferred stock bonuses were far too much on top of his annual salary and other compensation. Part of my rationale was that he needed to stay because he wanted to stay, not because he would be showered in wealth down the road. I personally believe that innovation stems from passion – SJ loved and lived Apple first and foremost. Recognition of his contributions and appreciation of Apple product design, integration, and functionality tied for second, and money was third (or lower).
Steve always said that Apple did not focus on profits. The same has to be true of its employees, *starting* at the top.
SPAM! REMOVE PLEASE! THANK YOU!