News: iTunes Match, MacBook Air shipments, Timeline, and more!

Written by Benny Ling | 16 November 2011
Posted in Apple

screenshot ITunes Match has officially been launched now, some two weeks after the official launch date but now available to the public. The launch of iTunes Match brings a new version of iTunes with iCloud support, but that's just about where all the good news ends — for one, iTunes Match isn't (yet) available outside of the US, and, it's currently limited to those with music libraries of 25,000 tracks or less.

The MacBook Air now represents a quarter of Apple's notebook shipments in the US, which speaks volumes about how popular the MacBook Air actually is, and how right Intel are about going to copy it with their Ultrabook series. Consider that MacBook Air shipments are up from just 8% earlier this year, and you know Apple are on to a winner — perhaps the first model wasn't hugely successful, but this revision definitely seems to be.

Timeline is a book by John Buck that details the history of (video) editing, and in it, there's a short excerpt on the Apple influence. The excerpt is all about Steve Jobs, Final Cut, and iMovie, and it's a great read.

Simplier is a simpler music player for Mac OS X that has a UI similar to other apps we've already seen, like Tweetie, Sparrow, and Raven.