iTunes Match Goes Live, Better Late than Never
Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 2011
By Matthew Shaer
Back in June, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a service called iTunes Match, which was described as a kind of central music repository, or digital locker. It works like this: A user pays Apple a yearly fee of $24.99. The company scans the user's library, including tracks uploaded from CDs or purchased from services other than iTunes, and locates "matches." Each match is added to an iCloud account, which the user can dip into at any time from any computer.
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