More Speculation for Tomorrow: Beatles on iTunes

If this is their big news, I'll go out and buy a physical copy of a Beatles album and then rip it to iTunes just to make my point.
 
liquidsuns said:
That'll be a boring bummer if that's all this is. I mean, I dig the Beatles as much as the next guy, but come on...who really cares?
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Lots and lots of burned out hippies and flour children with graying hair, iPods and iPhones ready to drop $50 to $100 for all the Beatles albums on their iPod that they don't have to rip. That is also all the cover art that they will stare at on their iPhone during business and PTA meetings.

Not you!
 
CFreymarc said:
Lots and lots of burned out hippies and flour children with graying hair, iPods and iPhones ready to drop $50 to $100 for all the Beatles albums on their iPod that they don't have to rip. That is also all the cover art that they will stare at on their iPhone during business and PTA meetings.

Not you!
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They'll rise to the occasion, then, to celebrate this one! ;)
 
rprebel said:
I don't understand why this would be a big deal, at least from our perspective. Are there any Beatles fans out there that don't already have their entire collection?
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There is a market for classic songs and old artists.

The week after Michael Jackson died, the top ten songs and top ten albums at the iTunes Store were all Michael Jackson's. Every single one.

Clearly, the mere presence of an artist at the iTunes Store will result in sales. A bit splashy announcement/event tends to drive additional sales.

In the case of Michael Jackson, it was very evident that not everyone who appreciated his work had all of the songs that they wanted.
 
larrylaffer said:
Only one of them matches! I would be thrilled to see The Beatles on iTunes, but that image is quite a stretch.

I guess we'll see...
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Actually after seeing the album cover, I think it's Beatles. The clocks don't make sense otherwise. And of course the clocks won't match the arms exactly.

But I still think this doesn't deserve a front page hype. It's Beatles. We have their CD's anyway, it's not like the music is getting released for the first time ever.
 
Clocks are likely just the time when the announcement will go live on apple.com: 7am PT, 10am ET,... Promoting the Beatles with a solo title plus clocks->help are too weird to be believable.
 
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CFreymarc said:
liquidsuns said:
That'll be a boring bummer if that's all this is. I mean, I dig the Beatles as much as the next guy, but come on...who really cares?
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Lots and lots of burned out hippies and flower children with graying hair, iPods and iPhones ready to drop $50 to $100 for all the Beatles albums on their iPod that they don't have to rip. That is also all the cover art that they will stare at on their iPhone during business and PTA meetings.

Not you!
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"Flour children"? And who's the burnt-out one?
 
Makes sense

Beetles availability makes sense. Anything functional-wise, like cloud-based streaming of iTunes library would likely be unveiled with a press event for Steve to explain how Apple has approach streaming different and better than everyone else. Also, by all indications the NC data center is just going live, and I am sure will internally be stress tested before launching anything commercially that relies on it. I think the widespread popularity of the Beetles warrants such an announcement even if there are some of you that are not fans or dont care. I am not a huge Beetles fan, but would probably get a few songs if available on iTunes.
 
antster94 said:
Of course, because Apple would advertise one band (a popular band admittedly) coming to iTunes as a day to remember for the rest of your life. Right.
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well i would be memorable if it meant that Zoon (sic) and Amazon and the rest of the flotsam and jetsam either had to wait or didnt get them at all!
 
So we have 7, 10, 3 and 12. Add this up, you have 32. Take this and divide by four and you have 8. Need I say more?
 
I'm thinking it's The Beatles.

psychometry said:
Funny...I could've sworn it was possible to get recordings of The Beatles from sources other than iTunes.

I fail to understand why anyone is excited about this. If you like The Beatles, you can get their music any number of different places.
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Think a little outside your peer group, would ya? The demographic who is interested in The Beatles contains many people who certainly are not familiar with music piracy, and many who may not be comfortable extracting all their Beatles music from CDs. They may not have all the CDs they might want, or they may not even have CDs. Very few of them would even begin to consider purchasing their Beatles digital files from a source outside iTunes (or would even know they can). There are many people who would be quite excited about this. Just not so many of the people on this site.

I love The Beatles' music, but I've already got it on my computer and phone.
 
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JimEJr said:
Beetles availability makes sense. Anything functional-wise, like cloud-based streaming of iTunes library would likely be unveiled with a press event for Steve to explain how Apple has approach streaming different and better than everyone else. Also, by all indications the NC data center is just going live, and I am sure will internally be stress tested before launching anything commercially that relies on it. I think the widespread popularity of the Beetles warrants such an announcement even if there are some of you that are not fans or dont care. I am not a huge Beetles fan, but would probably get a few songs if available on iTunes.
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I can tell you're "not a huge Beatles fan" because you can't spell "Beatles."
 
i really hope this big announcement about the itunes, but would be something more worth while than the Beatles.
 
Won't be the Beatles.

I agree with the others saying it ain't that.

First of all the tag line is not very pun heavy. Could mean anything. And secondly, there hasn't been a media event scheduled. Jobs has been after the Fab Four for years, if he got them he'd be making a BIG thing about it. It might not matter to a lot of the public or mac fans but it's another milestone for him. Just releasing a press statement about it isn't Jobs style.

I will say that those who are saying the clock hands don't match up neither did the bands arms on the cover. They spelt help in semaphore but the photographer didn't like the way it looked so they tried other letters.

I will give you a tip as I'm a bookie. If it is The Beatles hitting iTunes then get your money on NOW for Xmas Number one in the UK. Some of the bookies were offering odds on how many Beatle songs would hit the Top 40 once they reached iTunes. Those odds will tumble if it is announced.:D
 
That's the big fuss? Man I was thinking it was something bigger. Of course it's big for fans... but for the rest of Apple's fanatics, it's kind of a let down. Oh well, nothing lost for me, something gained for others. :)
 
I dunno...this whole notion that "it's the name of a song, that isn't a Beatles song and four clock faces, four guys with their arms in the air" seems thin.

Maybe it's just me, but if you are of a certain age (as I am) and you're a huge Beatles fan (ditto), You've probably already bought The CD's and had your kid rip it for you so you could listen to it on that iPod your wife bought you, (as I did)...
 
Loving the humour in this thread, keep it up. I would say disappointing if that is all it turns out to be; I'll certainly be working to forget the day asap, as long as we're talking about making points.
 
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