Tag: labels

  • This by Tinrocket adds customizable pins, labels and descriptions to images

    This is worth looking at, even if the name throws you off a bit in a kind of “Who’s on first?” sort of way.

    The This by Tinrocket app allows you to add labels, pointers, descriptions and commentary to your photos.

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  • Leaked document shows Apple Music to pay industry standard subscription revenue to artists upon launch

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    When Apple Music hits, it’ll pay artists about the industry standard.

    A leaked document shared by Digital Music News shows that with Apple charging between US$9.99 and US$14.99 per month for its upcoming on-demand Apple Music service, with 58 percent of its subscription revenues going to record labels. For every US$9.99 Apple collects from subscribers in the United States, it will pay out US$5.80 to labels. Additionally, Apple pays approximately 12 percent to publishers and/or songwriters, leaving the company with somewhere around 30 percent of the revenue from the Apple Music service.

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  • Rumor: In lieu of upcoming iTuns music streaming service, music labels unlikely to accept prices under $9.99 per month

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    This is the cost of a company getting to be a certain size or have a certain influence on its surrounding industries.

    Apparently, Apple is unlikely to offer a free, ad-supported tier for its upcoming streaming music service. It also seemed like Apple was going to try to undercut competitors like Spotify by offering its service for US$7.99 per month. Now, it’s looking like Apple might not be able to use price to catch up to Spotify — a report from Billboard indicates that the record companies are unsurprisingly unhappy with Apple’s attempt to make streaming music even cheaper. As such, it sounds like Apple is no longer pushing that price point and will instead price its service at the now-standard US$9.99 per month.

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  • Apple releases fifth iOS 7 beta to developer community, tweaks icons, Control Center, etc.

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    The fifth iOS 7 beta is out and the new operating system is coming that much closer to fruition.

    Per 9to5Mac, a little over a week after iOS 7 beta 4, Apple has seeded iOS 7 beta 5 to developers via and over-the-air Software Update. The previous beta brought several minor interface and performance tweaks to the operating system and beta 5 will likely continue doing that.

    The new beta adds the following fixes and changes:
    – All Settings icons redesigned (left is new).

    – More Yahoo presence.

    – New Twitter icon in share sheet.

    – Can now disable Control Center while in apps.

    – Major performance improvements across the system.

    – Camera swipe access from Lock screen is easier.

    – New slide to power off design.

    – New in-call icons.

    – New option to pull down on a banner.

    – Some transparency, blur, UI animation changes across the system.

    – Can access icons in a folder during animation.

    – Some blurs and effects disabled on iPad mini (likely to improve performance).

    – Users can now bring back “on/off” labels on switches. Enable in Accessibility.

    iOS 7 is expected to be released this fall as well as feature a significant redesign and new features for the mobile operating system.

    If you’ve had a chance to play with the new beta and have any feedback to offer, please let us know in the comments.