Something tells me it’s going to be a long hard day at Apple’s data centres with iTunes 10.5 having just launched, and iOS 5 due to land at some point today.
Apple’s released the 10.5 update for iTunes this morning, which rather predictably means that the servers are undergoing an ungodly hammering right now — or at least they were when I was downloading it.
Today’s also the day that iOS 5 is due to land — probably around mid-afternoon if Apple keeps with its general policy of launching on US dates rather than Australian ones, but possibly not until quite late tonight. It’ll probably only get more challenging from there. [Apple]
BenDTU
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 9:04 AMDo we actually get any of the iTunes-in-the-cloud type features?
Dave
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 9:30 AMNot in Australia yet because we’re not as awesome as Americans know they are.
blaze0041
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 9:31 AMNot yet. I’m guessing licensing restrictions have something to do with that.
The only iTunes-in-the-Cloud features we do have is Apps and Books (which have been there since 10.4).
blaze0041
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 9:32 AMCorrection: we don’t get to redownload past music purchases (or movies, or TV shows)… yet.
Nathan
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 9:52 AMAvailable right now through the apple updater
Peter
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 10:16 AMDoes it still require that ungodly piece of crap QuickTime? I intend to install the beast one of these days to burn off my old m4p files and shake myself of Apple completely as soon as I can be asses.
Lee Bledsoe
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 10:45 AM“… as soon as I can be asses.”
this made me lol. haha thanks. a supurb typo.
MrSnail
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 11:05 AM+1
Thot I was the only one that lol’d!
Random
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 12:28 PMHe meant “superb” :P
BenDTU
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 11:32 AMNope, it doesn’t.
Andrew
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 12:00 PMThe good news is yes.. Quicktime is gone, sort of; it’s just not a seperate program now. The bad news is that it looks like they’ve incorperated the same audio and video playback engine into iTunes itself.
It’s using 64MB RAM and up to 10% of background processor time just to play an MP3. It’s raping the CPU at a constant 35-50% for 720p video.. so clearly still not hardware accelerated.
Bonjour is still there, plus a new unwelcome guest ‘Apple Push’.. a second service that also relates to network communication.
As always, type [Win] MSCONFIG [Enter]. Goto the startup tab, and uncheck all the Apple stuff to prevent it from loading at startup. It’ll load just fine when u actually need it.
Brad
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 10:20 AMIs it so hard to ask for a changelist, Apple?
matt
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 10:36 AMI accept itunes as the kingmaker syncing tool and a good music player, shop front and limited movie player that will push music to my air tunes gear.
I want apple to remember that even though they are 18 hours behind australia [even more for New Zealand and beyond] there is a rest of the world and id love to know that the international date line was recognised. pleae give the world a local date and time for something like this.
Steve
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 11:17 PMWhat makes you think this is a staggered release at all? And chances are, their central servers are the on the West Coast.
wiz1974
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 11:22 AMagreed, it gave me a smile this morning :)
foo
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 8:19 PMummm NZ is in front of Oz (time wise) matt
FlyingKanga
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 4:28 PMSo we’re getting it on the 13th? Sad.
Max
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 4:32 PMNot up yet…damn was hoping to download it on works 75mbs connection. Probably tonight some time. It’s 10.30pm the 11th in Cali right now
DeeJayMorgan
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 7:59 PMAmazing! The iTunes in the cloud features are working! Australians are no longer second class citizens and can re-download their previous purchases. Now we just need iTunes match and the circle is complete. :)
Ryan
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 8:45 PMI just noticed that the music tab has appeared in the purchased items section of itunes :) I can download my previously purchased music from the iCloud :)!!
Cam
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 6:36 AMI cant wait to download IOS5 so i can have my iphone 4 suddenly run half as well as it used to, and force me to buy the new one.
Oliver
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 4:25 PMDying to get the update, but it’s still not available :( I’ve been waiting for it literally the whole day, to no avail.
However, people are indeed saying they’ve got it, and installed it? So how come I haven’t? :/