ITunes Match: what is it and how does it work?

iTunes Match is running and you will not have had the good surprise to see it happen in France. As announced by Apple this summer, the United States are served first. It is always the case when the labels are part of the ... things come to those who wait. In the meantime, here's a summary of what the Americans have discovered that night.
 
What is iTunes Match?

iTunes Match is one of the pillars of icloud, the new service offering in the cloud of Apple. It complements "iTunes in the Cloud." Little reminder with iTunes in the Cloud can redownload at will on their Mac or PC (provided they have iTunes), the iPad, the iPhone and iPod touch (or streaming on the Apple TV) the songs has been purchased over time from the iTunes Music Store.

ITunes Match: How to "clean up" the MP3

One of the interesting aspects of iTunes Match is its ability to restore luster to the music tracks that were encoded in low quality. It is this faculty that has earned this new service from Apple the qualifier of "washing" or "washerwoman." An "old" MP3 may indeed be turning into an AAC brand new and much better sound quality. All in a jiffy and with the blessing of joint Apple and labels. However, under certain conditions a blessing, magic has its limits. Explanations ...

The Apple TV and magazine jailbreaks

Like Apple's mobile devices, it is possible to jailbreak the latest Apple TV (version 2 black, € 119). This manipulation is permitted through the firmware of this unit, similar to that of iOS. Unlike the first generation that was close to OS X then "hack" and not "jailbreak". The purpose of jailbreaking is to fully exploit the impressive capabilities of the device with software a bit more practical than those offered as standard by Apple.

To jailbreak your Apple TV there is no need for technical prerequisites. However you must obtain a micro USB cable that is not provided by Apple.

Flash: why do you still need

After the defection of Flash on mobile platforms, supporters of HTML5 have in sight the battlefield following: computers. But things are far from a foregone conclusion, because Flash keeps some benefits that HTML5 can still claim.

Ubiquity Runtime

If Flash was given as a rapid adoption of browsers and web sites is that it offered a solution to a real headache for web developers: it offered a runtime unique and universal to all browsers, while the HTML often requires adaptation to each browser. This is the famous "write once, run anywhere" (write once, run anywhere) was once the promise of Java, fully completed by Flash, at least until the advent of mobile platforms.

Apple May buy a flash memory specialist

Apple plans to buy an Israeli company specializing in flash memories for 400 to 500 million dollars, reports TechCrunch post information to a local site, Calcalist which does not manufacture any flash memory. Anobit developed a series of algorithms, integrated into controllers, and able to significantly improve the longevity and performance of these memories (MLC type), while reducing costs. In one of its brochures, Anobit said to multiply by 20 the number of cycles of read / write. This is offset by the software limitations of the physical memory MCL (Multi Level Cell) which by their ability to store more information also wear out faster.

Anobit makes no mention of its customers but the Israeli site, the origin of information, indicates that Apple is already working with Anobit, through its providers components for its MacBook Air, iPhone and iPad 4S. In early August, Anobit announced it had sold more than 20 million units of its controller "MSP" (Memory Signal Processing) for smartphones, tablets and media players. She also designs SSD storage solutions for enterprise servers.

If the amount advanced is proved, it would correspond to that Apple paid for NeXT (429 million) in 1996. Anobit has patented its technology - it refers to 95 patents including 21 issued and it was acquired by Apple and would allow it to book this process to his own use. From the Israeli website sources, Anobit has about 200 employees it has subsidiaries in Korea and the United States.