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The Beatles Appear in iTunes Store
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To all you lame complainers here with no life, if this news upsets you so much, why don't you post some links to some awesome announcements in the PC world? Enlighten us on something exciting about I.E 9.
And why does the Mac vs PC discussion get dragged into this? This has nothing to do with it
The beatles actually wrote their own music and played instruments. jacko was no better than nsync and he was a child molester pos who deserved to die.
Listen mp3 or Aac or lossless on macbook pro you don't ear the difference. if you have a good hi-fi system or a studio monitors the difference is huge!!
The problem is that in the 80's and 90's people have good hi-fi systems, listen to CD and Vinyl, today people have crap computer speakers and listen to mp3...this is not evolution!
HELL YES!!!! Woo!
Edit: Looks like Apple is going to advertise this hell out of this.
You say yes and i say NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
To whoever said the Beatles have no "heart" in their music or whatever--have you ever even HEARD Oh Darling, or...ok screw it anything they made starting with Help!? And before that they were still cemented as pop geniuses. George essentially popularized the power chord (umm, HELLO AC/DC...their brand of rock would be NOWHERE without George) but was still a fantastic guitarist in jazz-terms when he needed to be, and Ringo was the first drummer to popularize keeping time on the hi-hats...HELLO EVERY BAND SINCE THE BEATLES EVER. Plus, just seriously stop and think for a second about how many songs of theirs every single one of you knows. Honestly you all. Get a clue.
OMG!!!! The iPhone line is going to be discontinued!!!!!!!! Tell everyone you know!!!
Not really.... I am interested in getting the new ios 4.2 and excited about the hype Apple made surrounding something "I will never forget". Then this?? Seriously.... I felt like I took the bait... shame on me actually.
Maybe if we weren't waiting around for the other "Big Announcement" in November I would get less frustrated... but as for now, I am just venting for being a fool.
AC/DC has also released albums as recently as 2008 while The Beatles did all their work in a period of 7 years. Impressive, no?
Also, The Beatles managed 545 million sales by 1972, nine years after their first album released. AC/DC has sold about 200 million albums since they formed.
Man, what a whine-fest.
Remember: Apple just posted a teaser ad in iTunes -- it's all of you who blew it out of proportion. I think they did the same thing for Ke$ha...
Oh yeah, here's another thing: The numerous posts suggesting that everyone who wants the Beatles already has the beatles: just think for a few seconds before you post something like. By that logic, no one should sell Beatles music -- or anything else that's been out for a while.
Remember: Apple just posted a teaser ad in iTunes -- it's all of you who blew it out of proportion. I think they did the same thing for Ke$ha...
Oh yeah, here's another thing: The numerous posts suggesting that everyone who wants the Beatles already has the beatles: just think for a few seconds before you post something like. By that logic, no one should sell Beatles music -- or anything else that's been out for a while.
Do a ABX test, AAC 256, absurd to say one can hear the difference. The placebo effect can play big mind games one must do an ABX .
There's no point anyone downloading The Beatles anyway. You won't be able to hear them over the sound of stamping feet and toys being thrown.
It's truly amazing the way people have worked themselves up about this. It's called marketing, and it is working. The story is second most read on the BBC website, only topped by a story which is almost unbeatable at the moment.
The way people are talking, it's as if Apple pulled all the iOS4.2 development team off of that to work on the Beatles announcement.
The marketing was a little over the top (as all effective marketing is). It's certainly got people talking about it though, hasn't it.
Given what they had to work with (old music that many people already own), this could go down as a particularly notable and efficient marketing campaign. They have caused all this discussion by changing one web page.
As for those that aren't interested, has your Mac stopped working? Is your iPhone less use now? I didn't think so. Just move on and wait for the next thing that will benefit you. I promise not to moan if it doesn't interest me.
It's truly amazing the way people have worked themselves up about this. It's called marketing, and it is working. The story is second most read on the BBC website, only topped by a story which is almost unbeatable at the moment.
The way people are talking, it's as if Apple pulled all the iOS4.2 development team off of that to work on the Beatles announcement.
The marketing was a little over the top (as all effective marketing is). It's certainly got people talking about it though, hasn't it.
Given what they had to work with (old music that many people already own), this could go down as a particularly notable and efficient marketing campaign. They have caused all this discussion by changing one web page.
As for those that aren't interested, has your Mac stopped working? Is your iPhone less use now? I didn't think so. Just move on and wait for the next thing that will benefit you. I promise not to moan if it doesn't interest me.