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samedi 21 septembre 2013

Apple iPhone 5s – Good luck getting one today, you’ll need it

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Further evidence is emerging this morning following our earlier story on the iPhone 5s stock situation. It all began when we started seeing lots of pre-order offers for the iPhone 5c but absolutely none for the iPhone 5s. Yesterday we then spotted that O2 would not have any in store today.

EE have stated that the 5s won’t be in all stores (most major ones will), and now the BBC has picked up on our story, stating that Apple could be trying to drive sales of the iPhone 5c, which doesn’t appear to have captured the imagination in quite the way Apple would have hoped. A “network spokesman”, who didn’t want to be named, has stated that there’s “crates and crates” of the 5c but that the 5s was being “drip fed” onto the market. It’s perhaps an effort to create panic amongst customers and the usual large queues outside Apple stores.

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We went onto the Apple website this morning because, quite frankly, it’s too cold to queue. Surprisingly, if you order online, you’ll not get your iPhone 5s until October as the device isn’t going to be dispatched for 7-10 business days.

Whatever happens, networks will probably end up shouldering the blame for not having enough iPhone 5s handsets in their stores whilst Apple, who don’t appear to have supplied enough stock, will continue to be seen as a customer-friendly brand.

vendredi 13 septembre 2013

Xbox Music for Android and iOS should be available today

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Isn’t it great when a company follows through and actually does what they said they would? A year ago…..

It was about this time last year when Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 were announced and along with them came Xbox Music, which was Microsoft’s Music streaming service, which also let  you download music for offline listening.

Well today is the day that Xbox Music will be available on Android and iOS. Hopefully.
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Today is a big day for Xbox Music: we’re releasing on iOS and Android and we’re also adding free streaming to our Web player, making Xbox Music and its 30 million tracks available on millions more devices and for free to anyone with a Web browser.

Xbox Music is coming up on its one-year anniversary and we’ve learned a lot in that time. Xbox Music is now, more than ever, a service that spans across all kinds of devices—phones, tablets, PCs and TVs—and unites artists with their fans through one common platform.

So far only the iOS version is available here if when the Android version appears for us UK residents we’ll post a link. For me this is quite something, I’ve been using Xbox Music since it launched on my Surface, Windows Phone and my Xbox and today hopefully I’ll be able to add my Android stuff to that list. Although it sounds like the Android version won’t let you download music just stream it instead, which might be a no no for me, several times a year on holiday I need music stored offline, we’ll just have to see how this pans out.

Update – This is now live for Android here.

Source – xbox