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Live Coverage of 'It's Only Rock and Roll' Media Event

n19htmare said:
In my opinion this event was...............full of FAIL.
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The whiners have a right to whine about one thing, and that's the Touch. But in my opinion this music was a hell of a lot better than last year's. The new nano looks amazing, almost as if they took all their engineers to work on the nano and realized at the last second "gee, we need to do something new to the touch, don't we?" I'm guessing that this iteration of the Touch will be short-lived, and in January we'll see a video camera update. If they wait until next September, that would just be epic fail.

And iTunes 9? Awesome. App organization + an easy way to sync music between macs, hell yes. My 2 most wanted features. Thank you, Apple. I suppose 64-bit cocoaness can wait.

What did iTunes 8 bring us? Gee, I can't even remember. Oh, yeah. Genius playlists, and that stupid black album view I never use.

Anybody know if they mentioned if you've bought an album that now has an "LP" if you can get it for free/cheap? I'm guessing not.
 
iTunes is not 64 bit for the mac. When someone installs 3.1 can you tell me if they disabled tethering
 
johnsmithapple said:
as a long term mac user (10 years +) I think I have a idea of why people are so cranky about the keynote.

checkout the link below to youtube of the G4 powerbook keynote :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMrc__wt7KA

now that was a amazing keynote.

does a modified ipod nano, reduce price on ipods, updates on iphone and itunes call for a keynote - I think not. And are these the kind of things that should bring Steve Jobs back on the stage after his illness - No.

Apple standards are truly dropping.
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You can call it a keynote if you want, its just become a regularly scheduled press conference. It doesn't hold the same standard it used to. They can't re-invent the wheel every year. Take the iphone, you think they can't have ichat with front facing camera or do you think AT&T can't handle it. I bet there are a lot of things they want to do that they are either hampered by vendors or they don't want to risk making drastic changes every year. Eventually, people would just hold onto their ipods if every year the whole thing changed.
 
i'm disappointed...

an 8gb Nano can have Video... but an iPod Touch 64gb can't... WTF?
another thing, is itunes 9 finally 64-bit?
 
kinda funny I don't look forward to the announcements but for the flame wars/break downs in MR...
Did we get any declarations of boycott on Apple?
 
Not sure if this has been posted yet but I skimmed the upgrade notes for the iPhone and there are a few cool new features, like remote locking from MM, saving videos from mail, fixing bugs with app icons, ability to make new trimmed videos, and a few more I can't remember right now. So there is more meat to it than Steve led us to believe. Not ground breaking, but better than nothing.
 
But if Apple intends to actually launch iPod Touches with a camera within the next, say, four weeks, why not announce it today and then state it will ship soon?

Apple has suffered multiple PR headaches already, so why open them up to a new one? You know most everyone who buys a Touch between today and that release will scream bloody murder and Apple will then have to appease them while the anti-Apple press again has a field day.

Better to just wait until Christmas. Sure, significant numbers of those who bought between today and then will still carp, but almost four months is a different kettle of fish than almost four weeks.
 
Glad i didn't get excited for anything. Only thing remotely interesting to me is iPhone OS 3.1
 
8GB, 32GB and 64GB touch. no more 16GB

also, is it me or is apple being like microsoft this year. assuming what the customers want?
 
Gar. I was waiting for this event before buying a new iPod, but the features I want are now divided between the Nano and the iPod Touch!

What makes me angrier is knowing that in true Mac cultist style, I'll probably just buy both. Damn you, Jobs!
 
Huge dissapointment for the Touch. My wife, my brother, and myself were all looking to buy today.
 
I'm really hoping home sharing will also help those of us with multiple users (and fast switching enabled), single computer who want to share library data without duplicating audio/video everywhere. This is really a pain to deal with, especially with a large library that is stored on a NAS.
 
I always get that sinking feeling in my gut when the price drops and features increase on my relatively new Apple products. It makes me feel sorry for my current products until I upgrade to teh very latest, then it happens all over again. Why can't the keep prices relatively close while increasing features like other companies do? Ignorance is bliss!
 
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