iTunes announcement tomorrow

aidan_walsh · 15-11-2010 4:21pm #1

apple.com homepage right now.

Odd. Somewhat out of step. Whats ready now that wasn't in September? North Carolina?

KeithM89_old · 15-11-2010 4:25pm

Wireless Syncing please!!

Crackity Jones · 15-11-2010 4:40pm

KeithM89 wrote: »

Wireless Syncing please!!

Less clunky and resource hogging software please!

aidan_walsh · 15-11-2010 4:48pm

KeithM89 wrote: »

Wireless Syncing please!!

Crackity Jones wrote: »

Less clunky and resource hogging software please!

Since we just got iTunes 10.1 I think we can safely say both of these are out for now

Sad Professor · 15-11-2010 5:18pm

It's something to do with their cloud based service. iTunes live streaming or whatever. That massive data centre they built in North Carolina ain't for nothing.

jack presley · 15-11-2010 7:00pm

Hopefully it'll be them announcing that they realised Ping is a waste or time and they're doing away with it.

displaced dub · 15-11-2010 8:16pm

Has to be the cloud and if it is then iTunes will just be the start of it.

jack presley · 15-11-2010 8:19pm

displaced dub wrote: »

Has to be the cloud and if it is then iTunes will just be the start of it.

What exactly does a cloud mean?

Dorsanty · 15-11-2010 8:51pm

Are they going to sneak something into iOS 4.2 to work with some new iTunes feature? 4.2 is due isn't it?

No point having a super new cool piece of magic if no one can test drive it. I'd love to have my library in the cloud. But that is more likely if I store it in s3 than if apple implement something. Would be only your iTunes purchases no doubt.

Sad Professor · 16-11-2010 12:12am

There's a lot of speculation that it might just be the Beatles catalogue, which given the lack of press conference would kinda make sense. Live streaming/cloud-based iTunes might be too big to just announce on the website. Steve really likes the Beatles.

adox · 16-11-2010 12:33am

Maybe a subscription service?

NUTZZ · 16-11-2010 1:13am

Sad Professor wrote: »

There's a lot of speculation that it might just be the Beatles catalogue, which given the lack of press conference would kinda make sense. Live streaming/cloud-based iTunes might be too big to just announce on the website. Steve really likes the Beatles.

I'd be hugely disappointed if that's all it was!

If the Journal's report is true, the addition of the Beatles' music to iTunes could be a symbolic milestone for Apple, said Tim Bajarin, an analyst with the Silicon Valley-based technology firm Creative Strategies.

"Assuming that it is real, it is a very significant point in music's history given the fact that the Beatles have for the last 15 years, held back on digital rights," he said. "This gives Apple a rather interesting opportunity to bring the Beatles to a very large audience; to a direct digital audience."

Since the message hit the Web this morning, bloggers and analysts alike have been bubbling over with speculation about what Tuesday's announcement will bring.

The_Illuminator · 16-11-2010 1:16am

My money's on the Beatles, which seems ridiculous, but seems to be being tipped all over the place.

Gregor Samsa · 16-11-2010 1:28am

Tomorrow is just another day.
That you'll never forget.

Looks like Apple have found the cure for Alzheimer's.

J-blk · 16-11-2010 11:58am

Sad Professor wrote: »

There's a lot of speculation that it might just be the Beatles catalogue, which given the lack of press conference would kinda make sense. Live streaming/cloud-based iTunes might be too big to just announce on the website. Steve really likes the Beatles.

Read that too - if it is just the Beatles catalog, I'll most definitely forget about it in 0.5 seconds...

maccored · 16-11-2010 12:48pm

http://www.hotpress.com/The%20Beatles/news/The-Beatles-come-to-iTunes/7258933.html

aidan_walsh · 16-11-2010 3:46pm

Yep, Beatles are now in the store.

condra · 16-11-2010 3:51pm

what a let down

The_Illuminator · 16-11-2010 3:54pm

http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/16/beatles-itunes/

J-blk · 16-11-2010 3:56pm

What a crock of s**t. Apple really overdoes it with the hype at times.

Sad Professor · 16-11-2010 4:08pm

J-blk wrote: »

What a crock of s**t. Apple really overdoes it with the hype at times.

Can Apple really be blamed for the hype? I mean, they can't even take their store offline for maintenance without people thinking the next gen iPad is coming.

mathepac · 16-11-2010 4:11pm

condra wrote: »

what a let down

J-blk wrote: »

What a crock of s**t. Apple really overdoes it with the hype at times.

I think this is immense.

Having spent years and millions at each others' throats over naming rights, logos, copyrights, IP, etc to see the music of the innovators of 60's / 70's popular music available via the multi-media innovators of the 21st century is brilliant. Apple vs Apple resolved.

J-blk · 16-11-2010 4:12pm

Sad Professor wrote: »

Can Apple really be blamed for the hype? I mean, they can't even take their store offline for maintenance without people thinking the next gen iPad is coming.

I agree about the store going offline for maintenance and the media going into a hype frenzy is not Apple's fault but in this case, yes they can be blamed: they could have kept the page marketing at "an exciting announcement from iTunes tomorrow", but nope, they had to ramp it up to 11, with the BS about a "day you will never forget".

Guess what Apple? I've already forgotten this BS

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Macca3000 · 16-11-2010 4:15pm

The Beatles.

Seriously. Is that it?

And I was looking forward to a cloud based iTunes :mad:

ButtersSuki · 16-11-2010 4:15pm

I'm so excited I could fall asleep.

What prompted this? Is Heather Mills looking to renegotiate or something?

Can't imagine Prince ever doing this......

ButtersSuki · 16-11-2010 4:17pm

Macca3000 wrote: »

The Beatles.

Seriously. Is that it?

And I was looking forward to a cloud based iTunes :mad:

With a name like Macca I thought you'd be over the moon......:D

Macca3000 · 16-11-2010 4:20pm

ButtersSuki wrote: »

With a name like Macca I thought you'd be over the moon......:D

Lol, never copped that actually:D

dubmick · 16-11-2010 5:11pm

that's it?

The Facebook new messaging system is more exciting that that

whiterebel · 16-11-2010 7:14pm

J-blk wrote: »

What a crock of s**t. Apple really overdoes it with the hype at times.

Why, because you wet yourself with excitement?:p

Wibbs · 16-11-2010 7:32pm

mathepac wrote: »

I think this is immense.

Having spent years and millions at each others' throats over naming rights, logos, copyrights, IP, etc to see the music of the innovators of 60's / 70's popular music available via the multi-media innovators of the 21st century is brilliant. Apple vs Apple resolved.

And its gonna be a tidy little earner for both parties. Their non digital album sales are still huge sellers. A band like U2 have sold over 100 million records, the Beatles over a billion. 50 million alone in the last 10 years. Both Macca and Jobs are gonna mint it for themselves and their respective companies.

EDIT the only problem I see is that any fans already had the CD's and just slapped them on their ipods anyway. So maybe they've missed the big money boat.

whiterebel · 16-11-2010 7:41pm

Wibbs wrote: »

And its gonna be a tidy little earner for both parties. Their non digital album sales are still huge sellers. A band like U2 have sold over 100 million records, the Beatles over a billion. 50 million alone in the last 10 years. Both Macca and Jobs are gonna mint it for themselves and their respective companies.

EDIT the only problem I see is that any fans already had the CD's and just slapped them on their ipods anyway. So maybe they've missed the big money boat.

Apple Corps spent so many years bitching and fighting, they could have sold much more. Still, how much can Macca and Ringo spend?:pac:

iTunes announcement tomorrow

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