On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 16:53, donz5 <[email protected]> wrote: > Billboard.com is offering several possibilities: > > 1. Streaming music > 2. Longer song samples > 3. Ping/Facebook integration > 4. Beatles go digital > 5. Upgraded software > 6. New product > 7. Acquisition > > http://www.billboard.com/#/news/apple-promises-big-itunes-announcement-tuesday-1004126816.story > > I'll go out on a limb and pick #4.
I do wonder if #4 (The Beatles) is all, since they don't usually have big announcements for single things. As for my thoughts on the others... 1. The conventional wisdom seems to be that streaming/cloud based iTunes is pretty unlikely because there isn't any buzz coming from the recording industry about it. Also, I wonder whether they think there would be any money to be made through that, when iPods are as cheap as they are. I think that the only real change to the existing structure in the foreseeable future would be flat-priced unlimited downloads, but I think we would have heard about that before now because there are too many moving parts to keep something like that from leaking. 2. I think that longer song samples have already been announced. Up from 30 to 90 seconds, from what I recall. 3. Maybe, given that Jobs and Zuckerburg were said to have met, but Ping and Facebook didn't really start off well, after FB disabled Apple's access for overloading its servers. 5. As far as upgraded software goes, I'd seen a blog post last week speculating that iOS 4.2 for iPad and iPhone was going to be released on Friday, but it hasn't happened yet. Makes me wonder if the timing and announcement are connected or not. Jobs seems to like to do the bit where he announces some huge thing and then it's available immediately for download. It's happened with the last several upgrades to Apple software products on both OS X and iOS. 6. Seems like any new product would have been announced at the last big Apple event when the iPod and MacBook lines were refreshed. 7. I don't know what acquisitions are out there that would matter to the consumer on the day they're announced, besides the Beatles catalog. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
