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Apple’s iTunes is no longer locked away with Apple-only products. Now customers can access iTunes music on their Mac or PC and stream it through BridgeCo-enabled CE products.
iTunes can now be controlled from a Mac or PC or remotely with Apple’s own Remote app on an iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.
BridgeCo is now inviting CE makers to participate in this new AirPlay opportunity which has the potential to quickly become the hot new must-have CE product feature.
JukeBlox provides all core technologies required for AirPlay compliance:
• Authentication, communication and streaming with iTunes Mac/PC
• Support for Apple “Remote” iPhone/iPad/iTouch control and system interface/control commands
• Simplified network setup featuring WPS, JB Connect and Bonjour/uPnP discovery
• Fail-Safe system code upgrade support options – Internet direct, home network or USB
• System management web pages
Find out more about BridgeCo and Apple’s AirPlay here.
BridgeCo is a venture capital backed technology company that is leading the connectivity revolution in consumer electronics – enabling the biggest CE brands to bring a world of music to every room in the home. BridgeCo’s industry-leading JukeBlox technology integrates a full software stack and an advanced network media processor into a WiFi network media module bringing media and music streaming to any home music system. BridgeCo is an ISO 9001 certified company with operations in El Segundo, California, Bangalore, India and sales offices around the world.
Another Home Run For Apple.
BridgeCo just hit the jackpot!
BridgeCo worked with Apple on its new AirPlay, where anyone with an iPod, iPhone, or iPad will be able to walk around his or her home and wirelessly send music from iTunes to receivers made by Denon, iHome Audio, Marantz, JBL, and Bowers & Wilkens. Unlike past products which did something similar, this is not a third-party reverse engineering workaround which has to be reworked every time Apple has a software update.
Hmm… I had plans to update my Denon receiver. Will have to take a look at this one. Very cool.
This news is huge if you take it as looking at the roadmap where iOS devices are headed. I believe that next year, or the year after that Apple will eliminate the Dock Connector from their products. Think of it, slowly consumers will transition anyway to streaming their content via AirPlay and we will get used to not using the Dock Connector to these drives. By that time the nano will be running iOS eventually eliminating the HD based IPod classic, leaving just the shuffle which doesn’t have a Dock Connector anyway.
AirPlay car audio? And video?
It’s interesting that this is home-only for now. I wonder if a different partner will offer wifi car connectivity, or maybe Apple sees cars more as requiring wired connections (for recharging as well as music playing).
Would be interesting to see some sort of combination of the Remote.app, iTunes DJ and Airplay for use in bars/restaurants as a way of requesting songs.