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A good early example of handling partial failure is the Zimbra mail & calendar app, the original "AJAX" app on the Internet, before Gmail/Google Calendar even. The Zimbra WebGUI supported an explicit "serverless" mode, which allowed for saving things like outgoing e-mail to a local repository and then, when network availability is detected, re-synchronize with the server and transparently transition to "server" mode.
Husky Starcraft draws in over 100,000 viewers over the period of a live stream with around 60k watching at any given time, which is really impressive.
I don't think he realized that Reading List was going to be on iOS too. Here's his exact response during the keynote: https://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/77796293510037504
On the music I have to give Apple credit. At first glance I was kind of annoyed at "download again" being their solution. But the more I think about it the more I think it's better than streaming. You get unlimited downloads so you can adjust for device storage space as needed and being able to download the track means you aren't subject to connection problems.

Add that to the fact that all your songs purchased in iTunes are available for free and I think you have a pretty stellar service.

Plus from their perspective it actually saves bandwidth. Since the number of downloads most people make will be limited to the number of devices they have (as opposed to streaming where you have to serve the song up every time it's played)
The labels will never do this unless you pay them, which is what Apple just did.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2602817
iMessage, I hope that's on Mac (like facetime, maybe they should combine both with iChat).
Unless Apple has severely improved Lala, then normal users are just going to be completely frustrated with it. Lala was completely hit-or-miss, often confidently matching completely wrong tracks and artists.

The moment that happens to a normal user they're going to be completely turned off to it all. Rogue songs start turning up on their devices, and they lose any way to sync their original track in iCloud. I'm adopting an extremely hesitant wait-and-see attitude to their matching service.
Survivor bias favors the bold.

Fortune, not so much.
You are not wrong, unless there's some way to buy bitcoin by cash or some other untraceable means (Western Union?). I think many people are confusing laundering with other things like tax evasion. They're distinctly different.
Looking at Apple's track record, I don't expect anything else than a good-working service. Not that anything Apple touches turns into gold (MobileMe...), but seeing that this is a major new feature for them, they've probably tested it quite well.
Have you actually updated an OS X install before, or are you just basing it on the crazy Windows update experience?

Apple distributes combo updates that will take you straight from a base 10.6 install to 10.6.7. You don't play the goofy multiple-version update game.
It seems Marco's views have shifted somewhat after seeing the demo:
https://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/77796293510037504

I think Instapaper will still be very successful. He may need to raise the price & focus on a smaller "Pro" user-base, though.
If Lion supports TRIM for all SSDs, I want to zap my Intel drive and do a fresh install so that there are no mystery regions on the drive.

I hope a normal DVD will be available on the quiet.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils iCloud and iOS and OS X features
One wonders if Apple makes any profit on the 24.99, or if it's all to appease the old, angry gods.

There's a limit of 25k songs, and Apple doesn't say if the music disappears if contract ends.
I don't know how big lala was, but Apple has maybe the biggest collection of correctly tagged collection of audio, along with user's listening habits through buys, and other stuff (soon playlists, etc...). This can certainly help mitigating this problem.

What's really impressive to me is that they manage to negotiate a deal with the majors to do this.
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Cash discounts are only allowable by the merchant agreements for some kinds of transactions, such as gas stations.

A lot of people offering "cash discount" are technically violating their agreements with VISA/MC.
As a former registered user of Kaleidoscope, I have to say it destabilized your system because of the necessary system hacks. What you say about Apple stealing good designs is definitely true (http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/), but Kaleidoscope had other issues.
The music's already out there. If you really wanted to go to all that trouble, why haven't you already done it?

And do you really think that if you suddenly show up in a bunch of torrent logs you won't get sued just because you gave Apple $30? It's not like people were getting sued because record companies were breaking into their homes and looking at what was on their hard drives.
I can confirm this works great, just tried it. nice app Daniel. One suggestion: maybe put that final url inside a textfield or textbox as mine got a little unruly in length.
Ah.. I didn't understand it this way before. I'm not sure how I'm justifying this to myself, as I have never bought an itunes album, haven't bought a physical album since 2004, and don't listen to music on my ipod, but I really do like this. It should cost £15.29, I'm going to expect £20 as a low estimate.
iTunes now have both, match those Apple sells, upload the rest.
You can do that but it would serve no purpose. If you bought $100k bitcoins on a credit card, now the IRS has a paper trail. They'll want to know where that $100k you paid the credit card bill came from.

Even if you got the money in without being traced and spent them that's not laundering, it's tax evasion.
We don't know yet, but one probably will never "own" your iTunes Cloud data the same way you own your music now, I concede that. Still, you'll have access to all your pirated music as long as you keep paying 30 bucks a year.

It's actually a brillant move. Similar to being exempted from punishment if you turn yourself in as an owner of illegal guns/tax fraud or what have you.
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If it's DRM free, how will the yearly subscription work? It's not like the tracks can expire.
I am going to make this comment and it might be unpopular but it is definitely not meant to be a slag against iOS. I am noticing that a lot of the new iOS features are "missing features" from other mobile OSs... and since I'm really only familiar with iOS and Android so I can only compare those but a short list:

- centralized notification tray
- OTA activation
- OTA synching
- OTA updates
- optimized updates
- reminders that sync with your calendar
- hardware camera buttons
- data sych to the cloud (though iCloud is much more complete than Google account sync)
- iMessage is being compared to BBM

This is a great for iOS and quite overdue. But at the risk of offending the Apple fans, am I the only one who feels that this update to iOS contains a lot of things that are just to maintain feature parity with other systems vs. outright innovation? Just seemed that much of the features list for iOS this year had a different feel from years past. Maybe it's just me.
The article says back ups will only occur over wifi. I assume that will be the bulk of the bandwidth icloud needs.
Theres a 25,000 file limit. iTunes purchases not included. [http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/]
I would definitely think it would be shared, I highly doubt the labels would agree to it otherwise.
The actors- hotspot tie is pretty big

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2987408/actors-in-scala-n...
I have roughly 700 albums that I ripped off little plastic disks in the '90s, all encoded at 192, all riddled with bit errors after being copied through 6-9 different IDE/SATA drives.

This announcement seems great. I will get way more than $25/yr value out of having reliable access to all this music again.

I am not hung up on "how often" I've paid for this music. I bought the CDs; if I wanted to, I could have archived them as carefully as Rob from High Fidelity. I have better things to do with my life. The $25 convenience fee here is buying me a lot of convenience.

If I didn't want the convenience, I wouldn't have to pay for it. I could just rerip. Let me work out my hourly rate and see what kind of return I'm getting for nevermind I'm just going to pay Apple.
It does lower the bar for people afraid of torrents. Think analog loophole, playing back a music video on Youtube and recording speaker output into a file.
You're paying $24.95 <em>per year</em> to get them in cloud. Of course, if you stop paying, you don't lose your original pirated files, but you don't get them in the high-quality versions on all your devices anymore, presumably.
What CMS would you recommend in it's stead? Free would of course be best.
ICloud, iOs 5 and OS X Lion
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I can't believe the fit the Music industry is throwing about Google Music and Amazon CloudDrive but they still made this deal with Apple.

Props to Apple. Shows they've got the muscle to get what they want.
I think the worse problem would be similar to that political pollsters (who are supposed to only call landlines) are having in the age of cell phones. What was once a method for getting a relatively representative sample of the population is an increasingly biased one. Correcting for the differences can be done, but as time goes on, the uncertainty of the corrections grows. Truth and perception diverge.
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I recommend Instacast[1] - best $2 I've spent in the last year.

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Well, then parents might actually have to "parent", and teach their children things like "responsibility" and "moderation" so that when they're older than 18, they won't be "a drain on society".
These are pretty easy to spot, and they get banned very quickly.
The winners are highly likely to evade taxes but have no need to launder. Money laundering is unnecessary because online gambling proceeds aren't illegal in most states, and even where they are the Silver Platter doctrine and the fact that AGs don't prosecute customers generally makes it not worth while. I played poker for a living in a state where it is illegal to do so and still just claimed taxes legally (which is unusual for a poker player).
What I am curious about is if there would be anything stopping someone from paying the $25 once to convert all of their previously pirated tracks to "legit" 256 kbps AAC tracks...this seems strange to me.
You are right, but this is exactly how Apple works. Start with very few features and polish to a pristine sheen. Then add new features and proclaim the world is changing.

It certainly has been working for them, and generally, isn't that the type of product development advice anyone in HN would give you? Start simple, polish and iterate.
A concern I always have over services like this, is that they tend to back up at the most inopportune times. Holding a VC and your call suddenly drops? Playing an FPS or RTS game and things start to become unresponsive? Uploading your latest project files, wondering why it's going so slowly while a is client clamouring for it yesterday?
Chances are one of your many automatic backup services just kicked in. With devices like the iPad and iPhone being 'always on' and connected to the wifi in the background, I can see this becoming a problem. When these sorts of services were confined to a desktop or laptop, you could always shut them down with a simple right click on a task bar/menu icon. Now you have multiple devices that could potentially be bogging down your network, how do you easily diagnose where the network drain is coming from?
Keep in mind it's $29.95 per year. They did say you get "DRM-free" music through the service. But with an annual fee, will you have to continue to pay the fee to access your iTunes Matched music?
This is massive news for any developers that were considering adding a sync feature to their apps. Even just local sync is a headache to implement from scratch, to say nothing of cloud sync – and what Apple just announced is a complete, unified solution from system-level APIs to servers, all ready-made and awaiting some Cocoa calls.

(And not to gloat, but I pretty much called this a week ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603921 )
2. Exactly! What I'm reading from this announcement is "Create your own music library for $25 a year, the caveat being that you have to go steal the music first and present it to us, then we'll add it to your library"
Because there was no incentive yet, obviously. Owning stuff on your harddrive is of not much use when you're constantly on the move and want to have easy access to your music and have less and less use for a stationary pc anyway. For many people, streaming services are the future and this is actually the first music industry move to make sense in a long time.

Also, it'd be interesting to see how music firms will justify suing you over alleged torrent downloads when you pay them 30 bucks for legalizing your stack.
I have a weak knee that I sprained while training for a marathon about five years ago. While it doesn't cause me any functional impairment, I have a near-constant dull ache in my leg from the sprain and from the other muscles remaining under tension in what I assume is an effort to hold my leg together.
Cherrypick, much? :) It seems that all your examples are cases where interoperability with or working like the Windows version is the primary required feature. For years after iTunes, there was no reasonable (GUI) alternative for MP3 playing, at the same time that iTunes was awful if you had a large, diverse collection without ID3 tags.
I'm going off of this line in the article: "With the bread, cookies and donuts, John was now operating with virtually no loss on the baked goods."

Seems to me like a pretty significant turnaround from what his situation had been prior to the switch on sourcing methods.
Honestly, this is attractive enough for me to consider reinstalling iTunes. I've ranted a number of times on the numerous issues I've had with it, but this service is amazing, especially as someone who doesn't buy their music from iTunes.

Why's that? Because for $25, all those older CD rips and music which was certainly acquired legally can now be obtained easily in 256 Apple lossless (edit: not lossless, duh). I don't know if I'd keep using the service, but that alone is, to put it bluntly, fucking awesome. I wonder if there will be some sort of limit on this to prevent abuse.

Edit: Any of the downvoters care to explain why I was downvoted for this post? Tone, mentioning piracy/abuse, hating iTunes? I'm genuinely curious here.
Apple uses Gracenote for identification and tags. It is the industry standard.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3814

There are free and open implementations of the same thing as well. It hashes the track locations and lengths to create a 'fingerprint' for each CD. Then it looks up the hash in the database.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDDB#How_CDDB_works
I totally agree with you, I was just clarifying the other comment. I've been thinking about uploading my whole collection to Amazon, whose music store I much prefer to iTunes, but an order-of-magnitude price difference is hard to justify. If all this works as advertised, it's going to be an absolutely killer service.
That's.. not an article. http://www.vg247.com/2011/06/06/star-wars-kinect-title-demoe...
I hope you can turn off the help like turning.
You're incorrect in your statement that there is no DRM. All DVDs and Bluray discs contain DRM. You are not able to make copies even to format shift them in the United States without breaking several laws.
You can "burn" the DMG to a USB key or DVD-ROM.
My point isn't that people aren't entitled to feel that one is better than the other. My point is that it's egregious to feel that one HAS to be better than the other.

It'd be like my brand of iced tea having the slogan, "Better than Nestea" or if my J.Crew shirt said, "better than Target."

Like I said in another comment, I love watching the Stanley Cup playoffs and watching Starcraft games narrated by HDStarcraft. But I don't need for a company to tell me explicitly that one is better than the other, because that doesn't matter to me and it just spurs fruitless fanboyism that I detest.
I guess Jobs still thinks that people want to own music. http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/26/us-apple-jobs-idUS...
The iPhone 4 antenna was touted as a major new feature as well. However, their method of testing (encasing them in thick plastic to mimic the appearance of an iPhone 3G/S) may have resulted in "antenna-gate". OR, at least given bloggers (and commenters, ahem) something to speculate about.

I do hope that they've tested it as well. And I hope that testing is extended beyond just Steve Jobs a few choice employees. Unfortunately, I highly doubt that to be the case...
You don't need to watch the keynote, their video is pretty well done to show all the new iOS 5 features:

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios5/gallery.html#video-ios
I think JavaScript is going to be the number one choice for server-side programming... for web developers who are dipping their toes into back-end code. .NET covers a lot more ground than that. Anyway, even if you decide to use JavaScript on the server side, you need more than a language. You need a platform with libraries and so forth. Solution? JavaScript.NET. If JavaScript becomes a big server-side language on Windows, that's how it will happen.
I don't see why or how the legal terms of Match would absolve you of any crimes you may have committed to acquire the original song.
This should actually be really attractive to pirates. You know all those albums you downloaded, but could only find in 128 kbps? Well, spend $25, and all those can now be 256 kbps. I absolutely loathe iTunes, and that's attractive enough to me that I'm considering reinstalling it.
Can a social network really be pageless? As I understand you're only meant to reach out to strangers/friends you didn't think of in Game Centre, the rest is for people you intend to frequently share with.
ericflo is correct. I'm trying really really hard to not do anything shady here. We use LSOs because our product is heavily flash centric and there are some issues (like not always running in a browser and also the size of data we store) that make LSOs a better technical fit than HTTP cookies. I'm well aware of the education problem surrounded LSOs and that's why I took the time to link to the macromedia pages where users can manage these things.

I apologize for not answering your questions sooner, I didn't know about that this HN thread until on a whim I went searching for it this morning. I'll keep an eye on it if you have any further questions you can also poke me on twitter or on freenode IRC if you'd prefer, I'm dreid pretty much everywhere.
How about Richard Branson, Felix Dennis, or Jeff Bezos?
Meh. I still can't go PC-less on my iPad. I have plenty of music that didn't come from updates and isn't for sale on iTunes, and I don't see anything about OS updates OTA. Exchange and Gmail already do most of the rest for me.
Every number is special. Every number has something on where you can apply rules to, and thus makes it special. Is there a database containing all the numbers and a list of atributes that make them special?
This could be actually pretty interesting, though iTunes generally fails to read many tags properly. I wonder if there's a limit to the amount of tracks. I'd definitely pay £20 a year for access to all of my music in the cloud legally, however I'm running Linux and on an Android. I guess it's just a benefit to being in the Apple ecosystem. It'd be wicked if Google did the same thing, and in the UK.
It's only 54 mb, I can email it to you if you want. It's just a bunch of php with some xml. For example, here's admin_accesscontrol.php:

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How is the battery life?
Larry Ellison had two co-founders. I believe that both of them left the company in the early '90s.
The number of people who look at this as "now anytime I want music in my iTunes account, I need to go torrent it first", who weren't already active pirates, is going to be so miniscule it won't even matter.

This is for people with existing collections of questionable legality or other provenance, who otherwise wouldn't join the service if it meant they had to give all that music up.
The difference might be big for current users of dropbox, but iCloud could make it harder to convince new icloud users to give dropbox a try.
That reminds me of the infamous Halal Guy's gyro cart located at 53rd and 6th in Manhattan. The food is sub-par at best but there is always a line of 30+ (I've seen nearly 100 before) people who, at least I think, are there for the experience more than anything.

There are literally dozens of other gyro carts scattered about the vicinity, some with much better food, yet that cart consistently has a huge line.
Interesting service. I really like the cloud APIs. I know that this was available in past versions of MobileMe, but so few used MobileMe so it wasn't a big thing for developers. If people are opted into iCloud you can pretty much assume that your users have an account and plan to store on Apple's dime instead of yours.

It almost seems too good to be true. I wouldn't be surprised if some developers abuse this by storing massive amounts of data in iCloud and Apple sets up some limits.

As for the music stuff, my consumer perspective is that if "anywhere" doesn't include a web browser, you're not really offering it any where. I don't expect you to build a separate client for competing platforms, but a web player I do. Google and Amazon are already doing this. I don't always use Macs and iPads so I need a way to access my music when I'm away from those.
Unlikely, much of Apple's current strategy seems to be in lock-in.
“Music features are available only in the U.S.” Sigh.
This is indeed very interesting, but it's no surprise that it's just incidental. This and similar phenomena are just artifacts of our base-10 number system.
Agree. I use Mac's at exhibitions all over the world. Anything without physical media of some sort (USB/DVD/CD/HDD) is as good as useless to me as often I don't have an internet connection or it's painfully slow.
Or maybe just make file system objects that appear to be songs?
Rdio did not just get "smote", IMO. Without streaming, my desire to use iTunes matching or iCloud for music in general is lacking. Streaming is where it's at, for me.
Not sure if Rdio's been smoted. I mean, I can get any song I want at any time on any device with rdio for a low monthly price. iTunes is still charging me to own songs, and my selection is still bound by the storage capacity of my device.

RDio is still a much better option than iTunes, Google Music or the Amazon music locker, IMO.
Not necessarily. If it became apparent that people could pay each other in bitcoins without being taxed, there would, eventually, be no point in have USDs at all.
All the numbers? ALL of them? :)
Excellent choice, but a little odd. Is Apple planning to buy twitter? They could use a few extra servers ....
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