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'It's Only Rock and Roll' Rumor Roundup

Final Predictions for Me:

(1) iTunes 9
- 64 Bit for Snow Leopard / Leopard, 32 Bit for everyone else
- Quicktime X visual style built into iTunes
- Facebook / Social Networking
- App Management within iTunes

(2) Cocktail (this might not even be ready)

(3) iPod Classic
- untouched
- price drop

(4) iPod Nano
- Larger Screen, 1.5:1
- Video Camera / Mic
- 16/32 gigs

(5) iPod Touch
- Video Camera / Mic (No HD)
- 16/32/64 gigs
- $199/$299/$399

(6) iPhone OS 3.1
- To be released late September

No Beatles, No Blu-Ray, No Apple TV (which I am very hoping for), No Tablet, No HD for either output/playback/recording on the iPhone/iTouch.

As far as Steve Jobs, I think he will be back since we haven't heard anything about other Apple Exec's being in charge of the event. This will help the stock, especially since the products are lackluster.
 
rdowns said:
Because Monday was Labor Day.
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I don't exactly find that being a good reason and I will tell you why.

They have held the keynote and iPod refreshes late into the month of September before (once being the 25th of September) Now reports that the new iPods are even delayed. If this was a possibility of happening don't you think Apple would have help the conference later in the month as they have before due to iPod manufacturing delays?

That's why I believe the Beatles releases have something to do with it. Apple wants to make a big deal out of it and rightly so Jobs has stated many times how he would love to have the Beatles on iTunes.
 
Goodeye said:
I don't exactly find that being a good reason and I will tell you why.

They have held the keynote and iPod refreshes late into the month of September before (once being the 25th of September) Now reports that the new iPods are even delayed. If this was a possibility of happening don't you think Apple would have help the conference later in the month as they have before due to iPod manufacturing delays?

That's why I believe the Beatles releases have something to do with it. Apple wants to make a big deal out of it and rightly so Jobs has stated many times how he would love to have the Beatles on iTunes.
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Apple has done this before. Whenever there is a holiday on a Monday, they delay the Keynote a day. Doesn't mean Beatles won't happen, but every source says Beatles on digital distribution isn't coming (except this last minute Yoko Ono Twitter thing, but no date is there).
 
zedsdead said:
Apple has done this before. Whenever there is a holiday on a Monday, they delay the Keynote a day. Doesn't mean Beatles won't happen, but every source says Beatles on digital distribution isn't coming (except this last minute Yoko Ono Twitter thing, but no date is there).
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Which might make lend you to think maybe they did reach a deal. I know they have done that because of Labor day but I'm not denying that now. But lets look at previous keynotes that have been later in the month due to iPod delays.

And the 9-9-09. Apple know how much everyone wants The Beatles on iTunes. Even if they are not available tomorrow out the door doesn't mean they might not be announcing that it's coming (hopefully) with a date.

Am I hoping I'm right? You bet you @$$ I am. Wife got me a $50 iTunes gift card last week for our anniversery thats been waiting to download Beatles music.

If I am wrong though I'm wrong oh well I can deal with it at that point. And that money will just go to buy new apps for my iPhone.
 
Goodeye said:
Which might make lend you to think maybe they did reach a deal. I know they have done that because of Labor day but I'm not denying that now. But lets look at previous keynotes that have been later in the month due to iPod delays.

And the 9-9-09. Apple know how much everyone wants The Beatles on iTunes. Even if they are not available tomorrow out the door doesn't mean they might not be announcing that it's coming (hopefully) with a date.

Am I hoping I'm right? You bet you @$$ I am. Wife got me a $50 iTunes gift card last week for our anniversery thats been waiting to download Beatles music.

If I am wrong though I'm wrong oh well I can deal with it at that point. And that money will just go to buy new apps for my iPhone.
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My problem with this is that there are more than one digital distribution method for music now (especially Amazon.com, which is successful). The music industry has been reluctant with Apple (look how long 256K, non-DRM music took to come to iTunes even though it was originally Apple's idea). I find it highly unlikely they struck a deal to get it exclusively, especially on something so major.
 
Peace said:
Not to be a conspiracy freak or anything but why couldn't Apple have done this Tuesday Sept. 1st instead on 9/9/9.. Doesn't that kind of create speculation ?
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1) Tues is the day after Labor Day -- people are just getting settled back in & catching up from the long weekend.

2) If you look at when Apple does iPod events it's usually on Wednesday... at least in recent years.
 
rdowns said:
I'm going to predict that no one will be satisfied, no matter what is announced.

That said, I think we'll get... [a] new iPhone OS.
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NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!! Do you realize 3.0 just came out 3 months ago?? They haven't even released 3.1 yet, why would they release 4.0? Besides, Apple doesn't release new iPhone/iPod Touch OS's until June/July of the next year.
moneyman118 said:
Don’t you get it! Apple likes to purposely confuse their consumers. They spread wrong rumors to make us think something other then the actual product is coming out. "Its only Rock and Roll" is Apple stating the opposite. I bet Apple is coming out with a whole lot more then music related products. They're throwing us a curve ball with have a Rolling Stones lyric on the invitation causing us to assume it there can't be a Beatle announcement. I bet Apple is going to have semiannual announcements, September and March.

*I see :apple:TV hardware and software updates
*iPod(obviously)
*iTunes
*iPhone 3.1
*New Displays
*The Beatles
*the much anticipated :apple:Tablet!
*Lastly the return of STEVE JOBS!

Apple as a company thinks outside of the box. Apple loves to keep us on our toes speculating what their next move is.

I’m ready for the beat down! Let me hear your comments!
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I'm sorry, but you are way too naive. You will be highly disappointed with tomorrow's event of you really think all of that is going to happen. If you knew the history of Apple's keynotes, you'd realize that stuff you expect to come are just fantasy.
 
dk152 said:
Someone, please enlighten me!

I don't quite get the fascination with having the Beatles on iTunes. I am a big fan of them and got most of my Beatles already on my iTunes from other sources like CDs. Why is it so important to have them on iTunes?
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It's like anything else on iTunes. If you don't own the CDs, you might be interested in having them on iTunes. If you own the CDs or don't like the music, you probably could care less if they were on iTunes. As far as why buy on the iTunes store vs buy / rip a CD, it's for all the same reasons that people currently use when buying music at the iTunes store.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
1) Tues is the day after Labor Day -- people are just getting settled back in & catching up from the long weekend.

2) If you look at when Apple does iPod events it's usually on Wednesday... at least in recent years.
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2006-- Tuesday Sept. 12th. A week and a half after Labor Day.
2007-- Wednesday Sept 5th Two days after Labor Day.
2008-- Tuesday Sept 9th One week and a day after Labor Day.
2009-- Wednesday Sept 9th Two days after Labor Day.

So over the past 3 years the iPod event has taken place a week or more after Labor Day. This time it's two days after Labor Day.
 
Well, apparently EMI, via the Financial Times, via Gizmodo, has confirmed that the Beatles be making an appearance with Apple: iTunes, the event, or otherwise.

http://gizmodo.com/5354915/extra-confirmed-emi-says-no-beatles-on-itunes-tomorrow

http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/09/apple-might-offer-a-cocktail-of-new-ipods-and-music/

According to McCartney, it is piracy that EMI is worried about (read: money). McCartney and Starr are all for putting it on iTunes, but it's the label that has the issue.

on a side note, did EMI purchase Apple Records? If so, could there still be some feelings from the lawsuit? and how much would McCartney and Starr get for their catalog going to iTunes, when it's the Jackson estate that would seem to earn the most?

BL.
 
if the Beatles come to iTunes tomorrow, I would expect to Steve to announce it and Paul and Ringo to show up on stage and shake his hands. That would be an event that Steve would never miss no matter what.
 
I sure hope iTunes 9 fixes the sound quality/noise/dropout problems with iTunes 8.

Playing songs thru AirTunes for example causes the audio playing through the host computer to become noisy/distorted. Quite unacceptable. Was hoping installing Snow Leopard would help but no such luck.
 
gugy said:
if the Beatles come to iTunes tomorrow, I would expect to Steve to announce it and Paul and Ringo to show up on stage and shake his hands. That would be an event that Steve would never missed it no matter what.
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True dat. If we see Steve Jobs at the keynote tomorrow The Beatles are on their way to iTunes. They may not be available immediately but Jobs could announce a later date in order to allow for the distribution of the remastered CD's.

And why didn't Sky news simply retract the story instead of having it pulled ASAP ?
 
Peace said:
2006-- Tuesday Sept. 12th. A week and a half after Labor Day.
2007-- Wednesday Sept 5th Two days after Labor Day.
2008-- Tuesday Sept 9th One week and a day after Labor Day.
2009-- Wednesday Sept 9th Two days after Labor Day.

So over the past 3 years the iPod event has taken place a week or more after Labor Day. This time it's the Day after Labor Day.
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Actually this time it's two days after Labor Day not the day after
 
pooryou said:
I sure hope iTunes 9 fixes the sound quality/noise/dropout problems with iTunes 8.

Playing songs thru AirTunes for example causes the audio playing through the host computer to become noisy/distorted. Quite unacceptable. Was hoping installing Snow Leopard would help but no such luck.
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Im not having this problem at all - did you check your cables on the Airport Express?
 
FreeState said:
Im not having this problem at all - did you check your cables on the Airport Express?
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Audio on the host computer becomes distorted, not from the Airport Express.
It's not cables because I can temporarily clear it up by changing the output settings to something else and then back (or by disabling AirTunes).
 
pooryou said:
Audio on the host computer becomes distorted, not from the Airport Express.
It's not cables because I can temporarily clear it up by changing the output settings to something else and then back (or by disabling AirTunes).
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Sorry somehow miss read that! I have no idea what it is then... hopefully it fixes what ever the problem is for you then:)
 
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