Hopefully it somehow includes mobile.me becoming free...
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But there's no reason to time an announcement because of North Carolina. NYC has big media companies and their CEOs, news media and their taping studios, and Wall Street. North Carolina has a big building full of Apple's servers. (If it's even up and running yet.) You don't set the time for a press campaign based on a big building full of hardware.
Unless Jobs is going to be on streaming video giving a tour of the facility, say, like he did when they opened the first retail store - though that was a pre-recorded video, not live. So I wouldn't bet on this, but it seems like a possibility.
A store is someplace Apple needs people to visit, so it would make sense for Jobs to do something like that, to generate interest.
From the point of view of an iTunes user, the NC data center is irrelevant. It's a hidden implementation detail. The iTunes store could be running on a G4 Mac Cube under Steve Jobs' desk, for all it matters.
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#73Since they've just released a new client, and people always eagerly scan the plist's looking for nuggets of information, I think it's safe to assume that it won't be anything client related (sorry, no WiFi syncing or cloud storage). So it's almost certainly Store related. It's interesting that Japan get a clock (no Australia, which is a bigger market). Just last week Japan got the ability to purchase & rent movies, a…
Though I doubt it would be possible because of licenses, (and also a relatively small number of people interested in that) the different clocks and the chosen time (which covers most of the world being awake) make me hope that they move to a somewhat global iTunes Store, where one can buy and gift music, apps, movies across country-specific stores.
Just last week, I couldn't gift an iPhone game to a friend because he wouldn't have been able to get it from his "local" store.
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#74Maybe that the announcement is online only so far and you're invited to check back here (the website) tomorrow is a clue that it's something online.
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I don't care what it's called, I dream of termination with extreme prejudice of the Carbon based, kruft-filled, all-in-one, un-Apple, sync-nightmare currently called iTunes.
I think I might be the only person on HN who actually luv- luv- luvs iTunes, and I say this as someone who once wrote his own MP3 player interface out of extreme music-player-fussiness. The "kruft" ship sailed the minute I downloaded Firefox.
I'm a fan of the way it exposes and emphasizes metadata. And it's smart playlists are awesome. Really, it's just a great organizational tool (for music). And it starts up pretty quickly on my mac (so it doesn't feel crufty).
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#76Since they've just released a new client, and people always eagerly scan the plist's looking for nuggets of information, I think it's safe to assume that it won't be anything client related (sorry, no WiFi syncing or cloud storage). So it's almost certainly Store related. It's interesting that Japan get a clock (no Australia, which is a bigger market). Just last week Japan got the ability to purchase & rent movies, a…
The Apple TV just isn't an attractive offering in the UK at the moment. No TV rentals, poor selection of Films, nothing like Netflix.
The UK clock has me in agreement with you. Making the Apple TV a value proposition in the UK.
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I think they mainly acquired Lala for their streaming deals with content providers.
Everything I've read has indicated that Lala's contracts with the music industry were non-transferable and would be dissolved upon Lala's sale or acquisition.
Which is one thing Dalton Caldwell explained at Startup School: a music startup either doesn't have deals in place and is thus not a good acquisition target; or does have deals in place and is still not a good acquisition target because deals are usually not transferable upon acquisition.
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#78It's going to be something quite expensive and will require to use iTunes - exciting!
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#79... and you'll see why 2010 won't be like "2010".
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#80This must either be syncing devices over the air or a music subscription service. I think the "never forget" part is important. You will "never forget" to sync your device, ever again. Your computer will "never forget" your music, because it's stored in the cloud.
Being forced to use iTunes to sync Music, Podcasts and Audiobooks (and play position!) is the most ridiculous and non-Apple user experience I've ever seen of any Apple product. It gets especially bad once you add multiple iDevices and use them for the same purpose over different time spans. Example: If I get home and want to continue listening to the current podcast on the iPad, I have to first sync my iPhone and the…
Wouldn't that would be pretty much entirely fixed by login-based wireless sync and cloud storage?
Or are there issues with those services, too?