Sting offers to forget about the albums and go on iOS-application

The popular British singer Sting announced that cease to produce music albums in the traditional sense because of the meaninglessness of effort in the era of mobile of applications.

The musician, recently to celebrate its 60th anniversary, said:

"People stop buying CDs. No one will sell their produce, so I'm looking for new ways to bring music to the audience, and at the moment the application [for the operating system iOS, which operate on the basis of smartphones iPhone, iPad tablet and players iPod touch] look most promising. Applications - a new model. "

This week, Sting came out the first such application for iPad " Sting 25 ", which comes with a traditional box-Seth with the same title.

The application includes, in addition to recorded music, a collection of archival photos, lyrics, interviews and live performances. By their very nature, the application can be updated, so this is not something static and unchanging, in contrast to the album in a tangible medium.

Sting is not the first musician who tries to "change format" and release music as applications for mobile devices Apple. In late 2010, a virtual music project Gorillaz, based leader of the popular music group Blur Damon Albarn, released his first album , recorded with a pen tablet iPad.

All Apple products for 30 years on one poster

Many people think that Apple - it's only iPhone, Mac OS X or iPad. This is partly because, of course, but it is only a fraction of a great history of a great company. Apple Inc. - One of the leaders of the global IT industry - The manufacturer of computers, laptops, media players and various software.

The Corporation's Steve Jobs - one of the pioneers of the computer industry, which became a pioneer in many fields: the first truly personal computer, the first multi-color displays to a PC, the first operating system with graphical interface, the first computers with support for the mouse, the first personal music player, the first online store music and full touchscreen smartphone ... list of innovations Apple can continue for very long.

In the Pop Chart Lab decided to combine all of Apple's products on one poster, "The great story of the great companies":

In this scheme, which is the most comprehensive collection of products from Apple, shows all of the development of "apple" of the company issued over the past 30 years, starting from the original the Mac, finishing with laptops MacBoook Air. Products are sorted by type and grouped according to the form factor, which varied throughout their evolution from 1976 to the present day.

The studio produced only 500 copies of the poster size 18 x 24 inches. Posters are available for order online publication . http://popchartlab.com/