That signalled a new direction for Apple's music services, towards a more streaming-focused, Spotify-like approach.
We can only wonder how far the rumoured scepticism of the intelligence services towards the Afghanistan operation has been adequately conveyed to ministers.
At its simplest this means moving away from standardised services, towards a flexible system where people have more control and play a bigger part in their community.
The government's plan to shift the economy away from financial services towards manufacturing will work only in the long run, if at all.
Senior politicians have stressed the need to "rebalance" the economy away from financial services towards high-end manufacturing, where Britain has a toehold.
These are all encouraging numbers, but they will need to be sustained throughout this year and into the next if we are to see any meaningful rebalancing of the UK economy away from services towards manufacturing".
Tomas Guerrero, researcher at the Centre for Global Economy and Geopolitics in Spain says: "A solid bet for the future of the Spanish economy could be reorienting a great part of our production and services towards the halal market.
New export orders barely grew, putting growth at the slowest rate in almost 18 months, further frustrating George Osborne's ambition to rebalance the economy away from consumer spending and financial services towards manufacturing and exports.
But despite the government's claims to rebalance the economy away from financial services towards manufacturing, long-running trends suggest that the sector is unlikely to provide cities with the private sector jobs growth they urgently require.
When the king of Bhutan announced that growth in Gross National Happiness is more important than growth in Gross National Product, this represented a shift in consciousness beyond seeking satisfaction in material goods and services, towards finding happiness and wellbeing in our inner world.
The Jabel Mukaber school is one of many in the East Jerusalem area illegally annexed by Israel in 1967 that meet in converted apartment buildings rather than structures designed as schoolhouses due to a long standing pattern of neglect in education and other services towards the Arabs who make up one third of the population of the city.
