#soundjam

...iTunes—the baffling compost pile of all Apple media—fifteen years ago, was a gem!

Still Waiting for the music alarm… October, 2016, iTunesversion 12.5.2 released. By most accounts iTunes is still a mess, as Apple tries to clean up the application that has for years devolved into the baffling, unmanageable compost pile of all Apple media. But fifteen years ago, iTunes was a gem, a minimal Apple interface quickly slapped on top of a great third party app called “SoundJam”…

How Tim Cook buying Beats is like Steve Jobs buying SoundJam

[cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]“The year was 1999. Steve Jobs was on stage at Macworld introducing the latest iMac with Firewire, Quicktime and iMovie. He told the faithful that iMovie was going to be to the Mac what desktop publishing had been 15 years earlier. Internally, the whole company — hardware, software, marketing — was aligned with making Macs the best computers for making home movies,”…