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Apple Teases 'Exciting' iTunes Announcement Tomorrow

If it is a music streaming service, you can bet they'll still download music. Only the iPhone and the iPad 3G are constantly connected to the internet, so that would leave iPod and iPad WiFi owners in the dust.

That being said I would not be surprised if they announce some form of streaming service for video and music. Maybe something similar to Netflix and Pandora.
 
thatisme said:
maybe free mobile me with itunes backup / cloud based service. 90 sec previews and ios 4.2... just a guess
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Add to that;
Bluewooth / wifi syncing of ipod touch / iphone / ipad to itunes on Mac / PC
Update of Time Capsule firmware to enable AirPlay of your cloud based iTunes library using remote app on your iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad.
iTunes becoming a web based service so I don't need the iTune Application to be installed, constantly updated

and it would be unforgettable!
 
Becordial said:
How would cloud based music work if you're not internet connected? Lets say you're in the car out in the country and have no mobile connection, is it going to cache up hours of music onto your ipod?

How will it, or the users, decide what music to keep locally and the rest in the cloud? Do you have to pre-plan to get (your) music from the cloud and will it even let you have a local copy?
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For $10 a month, Spotify iPhone app lets you download albums for offline listening. I would imagine that for your iTunes music that you've already bought, youd get access to it via commercial-free streaming, as well.
 
aprofetto8 said:
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That is awesome!
 
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I think it is the Beetles. Perfect timing for the holidays and quite frankly, when they talked about never forgetting "Tomorrow," the first thing that came to mind was "Yesterday," which is about not forgetting the past. This is a no brainer. I'd still rather just buy the CDs and rip though, unless they offer something exclusive (of course they will).
 
itunes through a web based interface
a new costly service to have your iTunes library in the cloud
a subscription model for music
the beatles on i tunes
90 sec preview
a separation of the stores so that you don't search accross all content when all you want is a movie: App store, Movies, Books, Music

that pretty much is it (my guess that is).
 
Cloud-based iTunes would be nice, but I'm guessing it'll only work for purchases made from the store :(
 
I'm in the UK so only just read about this a couple of hours ago, I immediately contacted one of my best friends who is a manager at EMI in London, in the Digital Development Dept. asking him if he has heard anything on the 'inside'.
As far as he is aware, as far as Apple is concerned (not including Spotify, as this is a different service all together) it's too soon for streaming music under a monthly subscription, because no contracts have been signed yet between music labels, publishers and Apple themselves. Under the current contracts EMI has with Apple, none of these cater for streaming because apparently this comes under a different "tarriff" - none of which have been agreed yet.
He said not to rule it out for it still being the announcement, because Apple can still of course use certain labels they do have permission for, but for a launch - EMI is a pretty damn big label to miss off the starting lineup.
I wouldn't get your hopes up regarding cloud based streaming subscriptions juuust yet, it will come soon enough.

Facebook integration is an obvious direction to go in, even iPhoto '11 has excellent Facebook integration already, it would be a no brainer.

I'm going to edge my bets on wireless sync with iOS4.2 and iTunes, and iOS backups to be saved on the cloud.
Along with new gen :apple:TV update to include PURCHASES which can be stored on the cloud; each individual iTunes account holder will be given a certain amount of storage (more GB for extra £$) a la Dropbox and content will effectively be streamed to your :apple:TV from there, rather than the HD on your iMac or Macbook. (it always seemed ridiculous to have to leave your computer on with the new :apple:TV, when you didn't have to with the old gen...they must have plans for this to change)

Thoughts?
 
mikechan1234 said:
LOL! you're kidding right?
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No, the dozens of exclamation points, 1's, and faces were 100% serious.

Kemkromik said:
Bahahaha. Oh I needed that laugh. Was having a crummy Monday so thanks for that bit of levity. ;)
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Seeing as you're still under "newbie" status, that's about the comment I'd expect to see from you. You've obviously never used Time Machine. You've obviously never restored from one. You also like talking out of the wrong end.

There is no backup software out there that does what Time Machine does, as well and as easily as it does it.

Back on topic. The Beatles thing is interesting, and I wish it would happen to shut everyone up. However, we'll be seeing one of the uses for that data center tomorrow, I'd say.
 
Gruber has updated his blog to say that it could just be Apple over emphasising the launch of 4.2 to make sure everyone updates
 
BC2009 said:
Hence all the clocks on the home page......

Apple announces a MAGICAL AND REVOLUTIONARY Daylight-Savings-Time implementation for iPhone in all countries all over the world.
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Fixed that for you. :)

I think it's going to be wireless syncing for iPhone and the Touch. I wish they would do something useful for LaLa and have some sort of streaming service, but that would be too logical.

It could possibly be cloud-related storage/backup as well. Wireless sync would make sense, because you can set it to sync at a certain time each day if you are on your home wireless network. Then you don't forget to sync.
 
My 5cents

At 10pm EST a video will go live featureing a bunch of apple execs explaining how good the new features are, kinda like the ones they now have after the keynotes with Jonathan Ive playing with lasers.

I'd hope for cloud computing, but I recon it'll only be availible for songs you have bought from iTunes.

If it is full cloud computing I hope it is like dropbox so I don't have to be online all the time.
 
That's it? I was expecting more of a game changer than this! :mad:
What Apple really should do is......


**Just practicing for tomorrow. :D
 
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