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Post by lukeqsee »

e1ven wrote: post #15
treblig wrote: post #9

Perhaps they're moving away from "Tunes"? It was a music player. Now it's a music, video, book, and app store and media center, as well as a connection hub for all of your accessory devices. I have a feeling that whatever they announce tomorrow will only be a proliferation of this trend. "iTunes" has got a ton of brand awareness, but we've seen them appropriately drop "Computer" from their company name and "Phone" fr…

They may do this, but it likely wouldn't be so soon after the iTunes icon change a few months ago- If they were going to drop the brand, they would have done so then.. Or at least not gone through the effort to rebrand.

You would think that. However, this is still Apple.

I wouldn't be surprised by anything.

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#32

Post by EGF »

uptown wrote: post #26
bradly wrote: post #22

The Beatles maybe?

I still don't understand why the Beatles being on iTunes is such a big deal. Anybody that cares about the Beatles already has their music, and it's already synced to their iDevice. At this point, it's nothing more than a business deal between Apple and the Beatles music label. Why should anybody else care?

I was thinking that it will be a Beatles announcement too. It seems like nobody will care, but at this point it has been scrutinized by so many folks that it has become a bigger deal.

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#33

Post by pavlov »

jgrahamc wrote: post #30
pavlov wrote: post #29

AFAIK, iTunes movie rentals are still not available outside USA and UK. This could be the launch of global movie rentals. That would explain the Euro-friendly timing of the announcement (7 am California, 4 pm Paris).

You can rent movies in the French store; I've done it.

Thanks -- scratch that theory then.

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#34

Post by smackfu »

uptown wrote: post #26
bradly wrote: post #22

The Beatles maybe?

I still don't understand why the Beatles being on iTunes is such a big deal. Anybody that cares about the Beatles already has their music, and it's already synced to their iDevice. At this point, it's nothing more than a business deal between Apple and the Beatles music label. Why should anybody else care?

The only real advantage would be that the Beatles would be included in Genius playlists.

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#35

Post by haribilalic »

pavlov wrote: post #29

AFAIK, iTunes movie rentals are still not available outside USA and UK. This could be the launch of global movie rentals. That would explain the Euro-friendly timing of the announcement (7 am California, 4 pm Paris).

Movies, including rentals, and TV shows are already available in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany.

Re: undefined

#36

Post by mlinsey »

7AM in California? With no blogs saying that they've been invited to a special event? I'm skeptical it's something as major as a new subscription service for that reason.

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#37

Post by tptacek »

J3L2404 wrote: post #11
treblig wrote: post #9

Perhaps they're moving away from "Tunes"? It was a music player. Now it's a music, video, book, and app store and media center, as well as a connection hub for all of your accessory devices. I have a feeling that whatever they announce tomorrow will only be a proliferation of this trend. "iTunes" has got a ton of brand awareness, but we've seen them appropriately drop "Computer" from their company name and "Phone" fr…

Oh to dream...

You dream of them using a different word than "Tunes"? You need to read more fiction.

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#38

Post by jon_hendry »

pavlov wrote: post #29

AFAIK, iTunes movie rentals are still not available outside USA and UK. This could be the launch of global movie rentals. That would explain the Euro-friendly timing of the announcement (7 am California, 4 pm Paris).

It's even friendlier for NY.

And it's not an 'event'. I bet it's about streaming, and the PR effort will be based in New York (convenient for the big labels?), rather than in California.

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#39

Post by [deleted] »

uptown wrote: post #26
bradly wrote: post #22

The Beatles maybe?

I still don't understand why the Beatles being on iTunes is such a big deal. Anybody that cares about the Beatles already has their music, and it's already synced to their iDevice. At this point, it's nothing more than a business deal between Apple and the Beatles music label. Why should anybody else care?

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Re: undefined

#40

Post by pilif »

haribilalic wrote: post #35
pavlov wrote: post #29

AFAIK, iTunes movie rentals are still not available outside USA and UK. This could be the launch of global movie rentals. That would explain the Euro-friendly timing of the announcement (7 am California, 4 pm Paris).

Movies, including rentals, and TV shows are already available in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany.

and Switzerland apparently. Since last week.. No TV shows though.
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