iTunes 11.4 has iOS 8 Support — Apple released iTunes 11.4 for the Mac and Windows on Tuesday with support for next week’s release of iOS 8 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The update will let users sync movies, music, and other content with devices running iOS 8, which will be available free from our Thursday September 18th (which is the 17th in the US). Choose Software Update from your Apple Menu to get it.
[The iTunes update is partly because OS 10.10 Yosemite will not be ready before iOS 8.]
Band accuses Apple of ripping off their music video concept — There was a lot to see during yesterday’s epic Apple event, and it all started with a very cool video called Perspective. The 2-minute clip is a pretty standard event-opening video for Apple, stating some principles the company believes in and patting users on the back for being part of it.
It was shot using an age-old visual trick that exploits the viewer’s limited two-dimensional perspective to line up words and phrases that exist only when viewed from a particular angle.
But popular rock group OK Go didn’t enjoy it, and they’re now claiming Apple ripped off the concept from their video for the song The Writing’s On The Wall. [But, if it’s an ‘age-old concept’…] You can see the Apple video & OK Go’s, and read more, at TUAW. (A frame from each is pictured above.)
Apple launches new iCloud pricing with 1TB storage option — Apple announced new iCloud storage pricing was coming during its WWDC keynote presentation earlier this year, and for the first time we get to see just how much the company thinks a terabyte of online storage is worth. Users who need a full TB of iCloud storage will be paying US$19.99 a month, which is twice what Dropbox users pay for that amount.
[See for yourself: open System Preferences, click on iCloud, click Manage, click Buy More Storage – 20GB more is now only $1.99 a month!]
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