Filed under: Video, Windows, Macintosh, Apple
Apple really, totally, definitely doing an iTunes Video Store
by Jordan Running Sep 19th 2005 at 3:40PM
After years of speculation, Ars Technica is calling it "official": Apple is going to open an iTunes Video Store. Their proof? Graphics ripped from the bowels of iTunes 5 which include "Buy Video," "Gift Video," and "Add Video" buttons. Though I personally prefer to wait for the press release before throwing around a word like "official,", it does look pretty convincing. It remains to be seen, however, what kind of video they'll be selling. Movies? Concert videos? TV episodes? The Star Wars Holiday Special?
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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J.T. Mill said 3:56PM on 9-19-2005
They had iPhone icons a year before the ROKR too. Apple, HAS to head this way eventually, so they might as well pay the person who does the stupid little icons to do all the icons at once rather than having to pay him twice.
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Todd said 6:02PM on 9-20-2005
I'm not thinking it'll be movies... I'm thinking it'll be music videos. I've never really thought about it before, but music videos were never really sold per se, just made for album promotion on MTV. I suppose it's about that technological time where most people have the bandwidth, the savvy, and now the software to be able to buy a music video just like we currently do our music. I won't be one to buy it - if and when, but I could see MANY people doing so. We'll see!
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danbee said 11:58AM on 9-21-2005
That's like saying that Apple are going to support Ogg Vorbis because the iTunes package contains an OGG icon.
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