Apple’s Grand Central Terminal Store Opening scheduled on this Friday....

Apple today dispatched its official Grand Central retail store page, officially revealing the 10:00 AM grand opening planned for this Friday, December 9^th. The store’s usual hours will contain an early opening time of 7:00 AM on weekdays so as to accommodate commuters passing through the terminal.

 

As per one of the Mac Rumors reader has passed along a few recent photos of the interior designing of the store, which shows that the Apple is still putting effort in the final finishing on the store’s build out with the typical wood tables that let customers to test out Apple’s products. One of the photo in that shows a close up view of the store’s Genius Bar, proclaiming the clear glass wall behind the bar that will deliver customers will a relatively clear view of the terminals’ stone walls behind.

Approximately Apple is paying $1.1 million per year in rent for outsized space, well below market rates for retail space in the terminal and the broader Manhattan real estate market. New York is investigating the deal’s terms, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority asserts that it established the best possible terms for a difficult space.

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Apple preparing to erase the iTunes match beta libraries on Saturday.

Apple has already notified its developers that they are going to erase the matched libraries of the iTunes Match service on Saturday. This erasing of the pre- release libraries is again being done related to the new release of iTunes match. After missing out the previous deadline, Apple hasn’t confirmed the exact date of the release of the iTunes Match. The $24.99-per-year service couldn’t take off last time in the month of October.

Apple also confirmed that it will not delete the existing iCloud libraries for this purpose. Developers have been instructed to turn off their iTunes match functionality on their computers and iOS devices. This can be done by selecting the option “Turn Off iTunes Match” available under the “store” menu in iTunes on a Mac or PC. But the method is a bit different in your iOS device. Here just open the native “Settings” Application and chose “Music” and turn off iTunes match. This feature can also be turned off on an Apple TV under the “Music” option.

It might affect the audio files in your system. So Apple suggests keeping a backup regularly. Do not delete the music files that are added to iCloud from your computer. The last time Apple made such an update was in the month of last October. But since they couldn’t release it on the expected date, no such confirmation about the dates have come up this time. The iTunes Store’s welcome page still pops up the same message that iTunes Match is “Coming Soon”.

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