More Speculation for Tomorrow: Beatles on iTunes

[NightFox]

Picture the scene: a winter's evening in 2053 sat in front of the fire..

"Granddad, where were you when the Beatles back catalogue was released on iTunes?"

"Ah, I remember that day well..." (picture blurs to a scene back in 2010 with me looking disappointed and bored, hunched over my keyboard posting on MacRumors)

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Just seen the albums on iTunes.. Unless you're planning on buying separate tracks, I can't see the attraction since Amazon sell the CD's for £3 less.

 

[dalcorn1]

Just refreshed the itunes home page and it's all beatles stuff now.

 

[KeithJenner]

Just seen the albums on iTunes.. Unless you're planning on buying separate tracks, I can't see the attraction since Amazon sell the CD's for £3 less.

Actually, that's not an unusual situation.

 

[WestonHarvey1]

Its not 10:00 EST yet...Guessing the home page will change at that time...

Seems very un-Apple like to miss a detail like that and not have a "Today" version ready.

That's it, I'm switching to Windows!!

 

[Vanarak19]

I think a lot of people here are missing the fact that the hype wasnt necessarily "Beatles" related. It was hyped by Apple's, yet again, secret fashion. It could have been anything, and now they have created a hyped event over the nets marketing.

 

[jrcsh6]

it's almost 10

 

[davidangel]

10:00 am

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Everyones been waiting hours just for this moment.. the poster has arrived!

"The Beatles. Now on iTunes"

...

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Thats it?

This is as funny as when Jobs said the 13" MBP had 'killer graphics'

 

[MonkeySee....]

apple site struggling!! haha

 

[rorschach]

http://www.apple.com/the-beatles/

 

[ipader]

Picture the scene: a winter's evening in 2053 sat in front of the fire..

"Granddad, where were you when the Beatles back catalogue was released on iTunes?"

"Ah, I remember that day well..." (picture blurs to a scene back in 2010 with me looking disappointed and bored, hunched over my keyboard posting on MacRumors)

That about sums it all up for me!

 

[WestonHarvey1]

That's it?!

 

[applefan022]

this definitely wont be a day to remember! LOL all that hype....

 

[ECUpirate44]

What a waste....

 

[jrcsh6]

all the apple hype. a few more of these and the iphone5 will go unoticed

 

[Artmuzz]

All this hype for that As much as I like alot of Beatles songs this is an absolute disappointment as most Beatles fans who use iTunes have got the Beatles on CD anyway. All this hype since last night has just been one joke.

 

[reubs]

Boo to you, Apple.

 

[ctdonath]

What won't I forget?

 

[mixel]

*claps* .. Why did people think Apple wouldn't do this again?

 

[George Knighton]

Of course, for all the criticism, I'll be looking for Beatles stuff to buy.



In defence of Steve and others old enough to remember, it really and truly was a very big deal.

 

[CavemanUK]

Ok, I defend Apple on most things but this was just dumb. I go to the Apple site for info technical gadgets, not some bunch of scousers from the 60's. they are no more important than any other band. Surely this doesn't deserve Home Page status for 2 days. The worst "Cry Wolf" yet.

 

[KCMichaelB]

OK The Beatles are on iTunes. That is great. But the big question is "Are they on Ping?"

 

[DotCom2]

This is indeed a day I will never forget!
I'll never forget how stupid Apple's marketing has gotten!

 

[vastoholic]

Anybody stop to think that the message is more akin to the release of the Desktop App Store than getting one band's music?

I could have sworn Steve have a release date of early next year for the Mac app store. I thought it wasn't going live until around January.