When I was 16, I got my first non-babysitting job and spent four months toiling at the drive-through window of my local Carl’s Jr. restaurant. Being a quick study, “Want some fries with that shake?” or “Can I interest you in a hot apple pie this evening?” soon rolled off my tongue at the end of every order as I eagerly attempted to up sell customers.
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With such relatively minor updates as new color options for the button-less iPod shuffle, and stronger 3D performance for the iPod touch, Apple may have simply tuned the transmission of the iPod hardware lineup at its annual music update last week, but it was pedal to the metal when it came to greasing the wheels of digital commerce for media and applications. The changes included:
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Apple is announcing perhaps the most significant change in iTunes since the company began to offer video downloads several years ago. Today Apple will unlock the digital rights management (DRM) protections that place certain limits on copying and interoperability of music purchased through iTunes. Apple also plans to improve the quality of its music files, and it will also add variable pricing for songs.
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Spiral Frog has died. You are now probably saying to yourself, I know what spiral ham is, but what’s Spiral Frog?
Spiral Frog was a music download service, once feted by The New York Times as a possible major competitor to iTunes. They had a seemingly ingenious concept, which seems pedestrian today: Ad-supported music downloads.
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Video Games | Anita Frazier, Entertainment Industry Analyst Toys & Video Games | 
March 8, 2010 10:45 am | 
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