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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.
This 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…
awful? I think it's fairly clever, myself.
... you do know that when you touch to 'grab' the nubbin, you can slide your finger down the face of the device a bit, and then when you slide left or right it scrubs more slowly, based on how far down the device you slid?
This 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…
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Is music streaming really that hard a service, that you would need to acquire someone to figure it out? Apple already does DRM'd video streaming, and that's a much more difficult problem.
I think they mainly acquired Lala for their streaming deals with content providers.
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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.
North Carolina, where the new data center is, is EST just like NY.
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.
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Oh to dream...
You dream of them using a different word than "Tunes"? You need to read more fiction.
That certainly would never be forgotten.
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?