Here's to hoping that it's about a complete rewrite of iTunes in Adobe Air.
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#62Why not have the news submission tomorrow then?
People get much more excited about "mysterious" future news than they do about facts being revealed. The former lends itself to speculation that is almost always widely more awesome than the actual reveal turns out to be.
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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.
count me as #2, have much preferred iTunes for a good few years now.
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North Carolina, where the new data center is, is EST just like NY.
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.
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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.
Nope, not the only one. I don’t use an iPod, or an iPhone, or an TV, but I think iTunes is wonderful as a PC music player. It beats the pants off everything that came before (remember all those music player apps whose selling point was that they had pretty, customizable “skins”?), and hasn’t really been challenged by anything since.
For all the talk of bloat, the changes and additions over the last few years to the main functionality have been quite restrained and user-focused: sorting by album by artist, adding a “sort by” metadata field, improving the organization of playlists, “smart” playlists, and playlist folders, views organized by album art rather than text, improvements to the column browser, &c. Even what I would call “bloaty” features like the “genius playlist” and “ping” can be easily turned off.
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#667AM 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.
On the other hand all the content on the apple.com homepage has been replaced by the announcement. This is something that Apple do only for big launches.
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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.
Nope, not the only one. I don’t use an iPod, or an iPhone, or an TV, but I think iTunes is wonderful as a PC music player. It beats the pants off everything that came before (remember all those music player apps whose selling point was that they had pretty, customizable “skins”?), and hasn’t really been challenged by anything since. For all the talk of bloat, the changes and additions over the last few years to the…
I have an iPhone, but I blame the iPhone for iTunes syncing, not iTunes itself.
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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.
Nope, not the only one. I don’t use an iPod, or an iPhone, or an TV, but I think iTunes is wonderful as a PC music player. It beats the pants off everything that came before (remember all those music player apps whose selling point was that they had pretty, customizable “skins”?), and hasn’t really been challenged by anything since. For all the talk of bloat, the changes and additions over the last few years to the…
Agreed: most of the things I don't like about it are things that I don't think can be solved just by improvements to the iTunes app but by moving to a more cloud-based system.
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#69Maybe it's just gonna be the 90 second previews like they were talking about.
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#70Why not have the news submission tomorrow then?
People get much more excited about "mysterious" future news than they do about facts being revealed. The former lends itself to speculation that is almost always widely more awesome than the actual reveal turns out to be.
Indeed, and Apple are masters of the "hint, announce, release" process. With the right timing, and a rabid fanbase, the same product can easily dominate the news three times in a year.