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itunes hack for iphoneWe’re really good at buying and selling stuff, and building brands. But if
Apple, with its billions in cash,
Linux OS, and world - wide
R&D; can be hacked, so can we. Wasn’t
PCI painful enough? How do you place a monetary value on the good will lost to thousands of customers?
People are looking for an escape route out of iTunes and anything that requires handing over a credit card to Apple. Is it a vocal minority? I’d say yes, except the hacks keep on coming. I’m not sure the problem has been resolved at all. So I have no idea how long this will go on.
We have enough trouble predicting demand and managing erratic commodity prices and retail price transparency. Do we really all want to be telecomm providers and banks too? I don’t think so. That’s why I say, “
Kids… don’t try this at home.” We’re in a pretty good situation with regard to data theft, at least in the US. The
TJX data breach and the ones that followed taught us that customers are forgiving as long as it doesn’t cost them any money.
It’s annoying to get new credit cards, but nowhere near as annoying as having your gift card account wiped out.
So think of this as a cautionary tale. We’re not software developers, banks, or credit card processors. We’re retailers. And it might be a good idea to stick to our knitting.
One last thing:
I am still an iTunes user, and still like most of my Apple - made computers and devices, but this has been so badly handled that I’m shocked. Shouldn’t we have all been asked to change our passwords proactively? It’s a bit like the famous
Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field at work: just assume it’s not real that it will go away. Guys, it won’t.
Security[edit]
The Telegraph reported in
November 2011 that Apple had been aware of a security flaw since 2008, that would let unauthorized third parties install "updates" to end - user's iTunes' software.[104] They reported that a security writer named
Brian Krebs had informed Apple of the vulnerability in 2008. They reported that the flaw was only closed in November 2011. They reported that
United Kingdom security software firm
Gamma International developed a program named FinFisher, intended to covertly spy on computer users, which can be clandestinely installed via bogus updates to iTunes' software.
Der Spiegel reported Gamma International had advertised the capability to clandestinely install FinFisher by exploiting this iTunes vulnerability.[105]
Software bloat[edit]
iTunes has been accused of being bloated as part of its efforts to turn it from a program that plays media to an e - commerce and advertising platform,[106][107] with former PC
World editor
Ed Bott accusing the company of hypocrisy in its advertising attacks on
Windows for similar practices.[
108] However, other commentators contest that criticism, saying that iTunes isn't bloated, it is just feature - richParty
Shuffle was renamed iTunes DJ in iTunes 8. When iTunes was updated to
8.1, quite a few features were added to iTunes DJ. The free
Apple Remote application for the iPhone and iPod
Touch was also updated at this time that added a new iTunes DJ option in the settings screen when the user is connected to a Wi - Fi network and a new song request feature is enabled in iTunes DJ on the hosts. Along with the song request feature voting on songs in the queue was added, the more votes a song gets the higher in the queue it will be and the sooner it will be played.
Song voting can only be done when song requesting is enabled and in two ways: the first by right clicking on a song in the iTunes DJ queue on the host's computer in iTunes, the second is in the
Remote application ether connected with the iTunes DJ option by a guest or by the host in the full playlist section. When song requesting is enabled a customizable welcome message is displayed below the host's shared library name in the button used to connect to iTunes DJ.[48]
Playlists can be played randomly or sequentially. The randomness of the shuffle algorithm can be biased for or against playing multiple tracks from the same
album or artists in sequence (a feature introduced in iTunes
5.0, and later discontinued in iTunes
8.0). iTunes DJ can also be biased towards selecting tracks with a higher star rating.
With the release of iTunes 11, the iTunes DJ feature was removed in favor of the
Up Next feature, which allows users to specify a song from their collection to play next, add it to a queue of songs to be played, or view a list of previously played tracks. However, the Up Next feature does not include features that used to be found in iTunes DJ, such as the ability for guests to request songs, does not provide as much information as the playlist view, and requires juggling multiple windows and floating dialogs to perform similar tasks.