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Apple Not Likely to Introduce Cloud-Based or Subscription iTunes Tomorrow?

hitekalex said:
Are you slow or just lack reading comprehension? I said Beatles are irrelevant in the digital music arena.. and their stance on whether they "agree" or "disagree" to sell their music on iTunes makes no difference to vast majority of people who listen to their music.
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That's nothing but speculation. You have nothing to back that statement up and there's a world of sales data showing that The Beatles are still one of the best selling acts in any format. As has already been pointed out, the irrelevance of The Beatles in the digital realm is BECAUSE of their absence from iTunes, not the other way around.
 
If this DOES come down to dealing with The Beatles, then thats.... annoying as ****.

I may like The Beatles, but I know many who do not. Not only that but I feel Steve Jobs would like it much more to stand on a stage and announce Beatles on iTunes rather than an image thrown up on iTunes. To big of a deal to him/iTunes (obviously everyone else agrees because every other post on here is in reference to the Beatles, to big of a deal).

If this is the case, then I've already forgotten it. Again, I don't think Apple would advertise something as "unforgettable" and then throw the Beatles at us.

Has to be some new feature, something that does have the possibility to affect everyone (not just Beatles fans) and therefore be unforgettable.
 
SteveKnobs said:
One of the dumbest comments I have ever seen on Macrumors. First, the Beatles on iTunes would be a HUGE event- I imagine there would be millions of songs sold in the first few days. Secondly, the Beatles are only irrelevant in terms of "digital" music, precisely because they aren't on iTunes, yet. But if you are suggesting they are irrelavent to the music industry in general, well that's like saying Apple isn't relevant to the computer, cellphone industries. Come on man, they're the f**cking Beatles!
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Its 2010 not 1960.

Anyone born in the last 30 years couldn't care less about the Beatles.
 
If we're just going to wish for stuff from iTunes, well I'll throw my hat into the ring for proper lossless files, especially now that they've added on the fly downsampling to iTunes for various devices. Some day, Apple will find a use for ALAC with its DRM intact. Unfortunately, my first hunch is that it's going to be nothing more exciting than 90 second song previews.

My second hunch is that tomorrow will see much rending of garments over Steve Job's betrayal of his true supporters.
 
TheGrudge said:
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Not a fan of all the Macrumor headlines that end with "?"

If your going to break news you shouldn't be asking your audience if it's true or not.

Just my .02
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It's not news it's rumors as in "MacRumors" (thus the question mark)
 
Geoffrey Grike said:
This is how I see this happening. Similar to how you connect to a device with the iPhone/iPad Remote application you will be able to connect to your iTunes library with your iOS device via WIFI. You might even see your device appear in the iTunes Device section as if you had physically connected your device to your Mac (or PC). It could either work as an automatic process or it could be kicked off manually. Either way, you will no longer need a physical connection to your Mac to sync. All syncing will be over WIFI.
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This has been long overdue. Cameras, cell phones, etc. can already do this. Heck, I can control my computer with my iPod over WiFi, yet I still cannot sync wirelessly.

Yet as much as I would love to see this feature, I'll be surprised if it is what tomorrow's announcement is. First off, it's not really revolutionary or life-changing and second it's not an iTunes feature exactly, it's more an iDevice feature. I can see them advertising something like that in a new iOS rollout or something, but this announcement seems to be focused on iTunes, in particular the iTunes store.
 
Of course, it's also possible that the record labels are silent because they are under a NDA until tomorrow when a big deal is announced.
 
Surf Monkey said:
This comment shows an amazing lack of awareness. The assertion that no one born in the last 30 years cares about The Beatles is absolutely and unequivocally incorrect.
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I am sure there are a few people under the age of 30 who care and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the vast majority of those under 30 simply don't care. You can continue to live in the 60s and think they are *still* a big deal but they are not.
 
Moyank24 said:
Well that's a buzz kill. I hate logic.

I'm just going to stop guessing and wait patiently until tomorrow.
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Doh, I hate logic!

This source sites what it isn't or might not be, it offers nothing to describe what it could be. This effectively makes the post pointless. It does not bring us any closer to an answer.

Apple has made a point to announce this on the front page. What possibly could justify that? 90 second previews in my book does not. Call me a dreamer but I want more!!!!
 
Surf Monkey said:
That's nothing but speculation. You have nothing to back that statement up and there's a world of sales data showing that The Beatles are still one of the best selling acts in any format. As has already been pointed out, the irrelevance of The Beatles in the digital realm is BECAUSE of their absence from iTunes, not the other way around.
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It's no more of an speculation than you continuing to insist Beatles release on iTunes will be a top-seller!

Just read this forum - other than you and maybe 1 other guy - no one seems to care about Beatles on iTunes. All people that I know who listen to Beatles already have their collections digitized.

Stop pretending that you know what's going to happen, but everyone else is "just guessing".
 
If it's the Beatles, there's a huge question I haven't seen mentioned yet.

Single songs or album only?

The latter would get a huge backlash, the former would sell a LOT. I can see why people wouldn't think it would be a big deal, but by that same logic wouldn't the remasters last year also not be a big deal since "eveyone already owns those songs"? And yet they sold a ton There's no question that the release of Beatles on iTunes will make huge news and have big sales (particularly if they allow sales of single songs). Hardcore beatles fans do own all the albums. But the potential market here is more casual fans (who may own some albums or none at all) who want singles from the albums they don't own. Don't forget, a huge part of iTunes is the impulse buy, that really adds up when you add one of the biggest selling and most respected bands of all time.
 
ptysell said:
I am sure there are a few people under the age of 30 who care but I hate to be the bearer of bad news, people simply don't care. You can continue to live in the 60s and think they are *still* a big deal but they are not.
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You're dead wrong. Go look at the sales figures for the recent re-release of the digitally remastered Beatles catalogue. There's no way in hell that those numbers were achieved on the wallets of 30+ consumers. Your assertion that The Beatles are not relevant to people under 30 is absurd on the very face of it.
 
Surf Monkey said:
You're dead wrong. Go look at the sales figures for the recent re-release of the digitally remastered Beatles catalogue. There's no way in hell that those numbers were achieved on the wallets of 30+ consumers. Your assertion that The Beatles are not relevant to people under 30 is absurd on the very face of it.
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You are living in a dreamland. The 60s are over.

WOW, they sold a lot of COMPACT DISCS. That screams "youth".
 
iMJustAGuy said:
Knew it. I'm telling you (again). 90 Second song previews. Edit: ^ DANG you beat me.
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You guys can't seriously believe that Apple would make this big of a deal over 90 second previews can you? :rolleyes:

ptysell said:
I am sure there are a few people under the age of 30 who care and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the vast majority of those under 30 simply don't care. You can continue to live in the 60s and think they are *still* a big deal but they are not.
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You obviously don't know jack squat about music. Having said that, I don't think this has anything to do with The Beatles.


One of the dumbest comments I have ever seen on Macrumors. First, the Beatles on iTunes would be a HUGE event- I imagine there would be millions of songs sold in the first few days. Secondly, the Beatles are only irrelevant in terms of "digital" music, precisely because they aren't on iTunes, yet. But if you are suggesting they are irrelavent to the music industry in general, well that's like saying Apple isn't relevant to the computer, cellphone industries.
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Originally Posted by Surf Monkey
Far more people than you think, evidently.
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Blakjack said:
Those people need to get a life.
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You might as well say that anybody who is into music needs to get a life. Of course, people are free to not like The Beatles (although I have a hard time with that one), but to deny their incredible influence on modern music and their still amazing popularity is just laughably ignorant.
 
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Surf Monkey said:
Not unsupported at all. Go to Amazon and look at where the various Beatles albums fall on their list of top selling albums.
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You are falsely equating the sales of their physical albums to the sales of MP3's!

As I said before - people buy their Remastered CD Set as a collector's item or as a gift. No one is going to buy iTunes MP3's as a collectors item.
 
ptysell said:
You are living in a dreamland. The 60s are over.
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Nice attempted insult. I can't be living in the '60s because I wasn't born then. Besides, you're ignoring the sales figures on Beatles content over the last few years. They're still one of the top selling acts of all time. Lobbing snotty comments doesn't change that fact.
 
hitekalex said:
You are falsely equating the sales of their physical albums to the sales of MP3's!

As I said before - people buy their Remastered CD Set as a collector's item or as a gift. No one is going to buy iTunes MP3's as a collectors item.
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Are you seriously asserting that the popularity of a band's music on CD has no bearing on the potential popularity of their music in digital format? Now I know you're just arguing to be contrary, not to support any kind of factual position.
 
the more I think about it... which is not a lot really....

itunes WIFI sync - won't forget to update / backup etc.

Although my favourite of all the others ideas is more formats! if they allowed itunes and iOS devices to play other media formats such as Divx Xvid. VLC seems to be allowed to do it so why the hell not. If they did that I'd be ordering 4 apple tv's tomorrow!
 
Blakjack said:
Who cares about the damn beatles. I mean.......they were cool and all but...... not enough to take up the entire front page of APPLE.COM. O would definitely forget this if it's the beatles.
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With all due respect to different opinions, I never got into their groove the same way I never got into commercial radio / top40 etc. But never mind what I think, the Beatles undoubtedly are 'HUGE' to a great number of people, and their rumored iTunes integration may likely be a very positive thing to a great number of folks. As long we all retain our personal choices of what our media exposure and experience is, its all good news to me. - best wishes to all you Beatles fans out there.
 
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