"At its 'Let's Talk iPhone' media event early last month, Apple announced that it would be launching its iTunes Match service in the United States at the 'end of October.' That launch date was itself apparently a slight delay from Apple's original plans given that support for the feature had been built into developer builds of iTunes 10.5, which was released in mid-October to support iOS 5 and iCloud," Eric Slivka reports for MacRumors.
"But with Apple apparently pushing back the iTunes Match launch slightly, the feature was removed from the public release of iTunes 10.5 and moved to a new iTunes 10.5.1 that was released for developer testing," Slivka reports. "Sources have indicated that Apple is close to a launch of iTunes Match, with retail store staff having been briefed on the service in preparation for its debut. But with the calendar now having turned to November, Apple has missed its public launch target for iTunes Match."
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Normally, we would have very little patience, but in this case, with the unique events that transpired in October, including employees attending memorial service(s) for late co-founder Steve Jobs, we're going to cut Apple some slack. Don't release it until it's working perfectly, Apple. That said, an official status update about iTunes Match would be entirely appropriate right about now.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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