iTunes

On April 28, 2003 Apple revolutionized the music industry by creating the iTunes Music Store.  

iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files.

You can download music from CDs and you put them into your own personal library. From this library you can create seperate playlists and adding the music you want to certain places.

You can also download music from the iTunes store. These normally cost between 79p and 99p per song. An album normally costs slightly less than the actually retail price, so you can save moeny from using iTunes.

Unfortunatly songs at almost a pound will build up and end up costing you a lot of money.

Also from the iTunes store you can download music vidoes for you to play on your computer or to put onto your apple product such as the iTouch but you have to make sure that it works on the apple device you have, although now in 2010 most of the new products also by apple allow you to watch videos, films and play games.

Another thing you can download from the iTunes store are games,TV shows and films. The films can be rented for a week or downloaded at a higher price to keep. Games can be free or charged. The charged games are a lot more advanced and better but they can cost around £3.99 per games which builds up.

You can also download podcasts.

You pay for items on the iTunes store by credit card. You can also give vouchers for iTunes for £5, £10 etc which you can put onto your system and pay for items that way.

Using iTunes you can also sort out a calander for your apple device, add pictures.

You can also download album covers which will show when you play a track.

From the tracks on your iTunes library you can also burn CDs which is when you create a track list and put them onto a CD for you to play in a car for example.

Apps are a key feature of apple products such as the iPad, iTouch and iPhones. They can be downloaded from the iTunes store, onto iTunes and then synced onto your device.

It says this on Apple.com about Apps.

'Manage your finances. Update your Facebook wall. Get a new high score. The App Store in iTunes has an app for just about anything. To download apps, visit the App Store in iTunes or download directly from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.'

'The iPod is the number one music player in the world. iTunes is the number one digital music store in the world. No Apple customer woke up this morning wishing for a way to do less with her music. No one but Apple is allowed to make players for iTunes Music Store songs, and no one but Apple can sell you proprietary file-format music that will play on the iPod'

I have an ipod touch, and as long as i have wireless connection i can access the internet, Facebook and MSN. Also some of my apps need internet access to use them. I can download songs from iTunes straight to my ipod which makes buying music easier. Without wireless i can still listen to all my music on the go and use some of the apps. With my iTouch i can also check the weather, the news and my calander. I can have everything i need on the go.