Apple posts tools for building TuneKit iTunes LPs and Extras

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago

Source: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/

Daniel Eran Dilger

Apple has taken iTunes LP and Extras public, encouraging independent developers to begin work on interactive digital content for distribution in iTunes starting early next year. The new move signals a big move in taking on Adobe Flash, pushing the adoption of web standards, and creating an new business model for content that [...]

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NateTehGreat 1 week, 6 days ago on Twitter

What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow http://✪df.ws/ei0 /via @daringfireball Reminiscent of http://j.mp/6jYbRr ↴ “Business model for the web”

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NateTehGreat 1 week, 6 days ago on Twitter

What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow http://✪df.ws/ei0 /via @daringfireball Reminiscent of http://j.mp/6jYbRr → “Business model for the web”

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NateTehGreat 1 week, 6 days ago on Twitter

What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow http://✪df.ws/ei0 @daringfireball

Reminiscent of http://j.mp/6jYbRr i.e., “Business model for the web”

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bartb1067 2 months ago on Twitter

Is #Apple planning their next business coup? http://bit.ly/8wmtPI #iTunes #TuneKit

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bartb1067 2 months ago on Twitter

Is #Apple planning their next business coup? http://bit.ly/8wmtPI #iTunes #TuneKit

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LWgifts 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Have a good weekend all! If you get bored and need something to read - Apple might have a biz model for Rupert Murdoch http://j.mp/8wmtPI

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Steven Villaverde 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

"guaranteed to create a real market for web content indepndnt from contextual ads … end run around Google’s ad empire" http://bit.ly/6K4kmT

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da52543 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

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da4he 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

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da4su 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

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arltdla 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

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vudicarus 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

Note on page 3 of the “Tune Kit Programming Guide” is a reference to “Cocktail”

“The TuneKit controller classes are designed to streamline the creation of Cocktail booklets that follow basic design

patterns”

Confirms (at least for me) what you/AppleInsider’s reported. It seems “Cocktail” is still in use as a general term
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TopTweeterTools 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

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ispicey 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

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uberVU - social comments 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

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alastairsweeny 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Apple's TuneKit - http://bit.ly/4MZRS3 - a better way than Flash for #Slate tablet content? - building tools HERE - http://bit.ly/5NZYgF

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Mark E Johnson 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

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J0hN 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

This is something I like. This is very probable and it builds on proven technologies and as far as i can see makes good business sense.

I would enjoy it if Apple created there own Book store and reader for their iPhone/iPod Touch Platform in an update as I would enjoy an easy to use and cheaply priced store for well written and popular titles.

That is something that i would use and
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Berend Schotanus 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Wordpress

“Apple’s new iTunes formats signal an intention to create an entirely new business of selling interactive content”

This sentence was for me the pivoting point in the article. Until there I was thinking of the potential of streaming live (ad supported?) http content to Apple TV (which wouldn’t be bad either and might ultimately kill the cable companies). After that I realized
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