This international clock choice could maybe hints for international expansion of the music and/or movie store? The announcement is made at 07.00 a.m. Cupertino time, quite unusual (usually it is 09 or 10 am). How much I wish the music and movie store could finally come here to the Czech Republic!
Don't get your hopes up, mate. Apple's home pages in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and all of the rest of Central and Eastern Europe show the MacBook Air info, rather than the teaser announcement.
I think Beetles angle its pretty strong. Paul M. Sings a song called "Just Another Day". In Help album cover he's pointing at 3:00 London time. Similar to the London time in this tease. All the other times are backed out to show the release time. Having New York mades sense because of John L. Beetles were huge in Tokyo. The chances of this not being beetle release is getting remote IMHO.
That's a beautiful song and one of my all-time favourites, but I think this suggestion really makes no sense.
"Another Day" is a song about a depressed young woman and evokes feelings of suicide or despair more than anything. I think it an unlikely tie-in to an Apple event that won't (presumably) be about suicide or specifically (we hope) aimed at young women or women who were young in the 1960's.
The times on the clocks are also the times that the announcement is being made so there is no reason to make up "extra" explanations (like the Help! album cover) for their appearance in the ad. That's a classic case of providing an answer to a question that wasn't asked, which is a type of reasoning more prevalent in conspiracy theories than factual situations.
I grew up with the Beatles and have as high opinion of them as anyone, but the idea that Apple is making a world-wide announcement, carefully timed (apparently), around the stock markets opening times in various countries, and that it's all about the Beatles catalogue is just not likely at all.
The Beatles are just not that important. They broke up before most current employees at Apple were even born, and the only consumers that remember seeing them play live would be so old now, they probably missed the computer revolution altogether.
That's a beautiful song and one of my all-time favourites, but I think this suggestion really makes no sense.
"Another Day" is a song about a depressed young woman and evokes feelings of suicide or despair more than anything. I think it an unlikely tie-in to an Apple event that won't (presumably) be about suicide or specifically (we hope) aimed at young women or women who were young in the 1960's.
This is true, but how many times have we seen American companies use the song American Woman as if it's a patriotic song?
Or Ronald Reagan wanting to use Born In the USA, obviously clueless as to the meaning of the song.
Close. Lossless is lossy relative to theoretically perfect analog. Unfortunately, there has never been a physical format that was even close to theoretically perfect. I'll take the expanded dynamic range of CDs over vinyl any day.
I think Beetles angle its pretty strong. Paul M. Sings a song called "Just Another Day". In Help album cover he's pointing at 3:00 London time. Similar to the London time in this tease. All the other times are backed out to show the release time. Having New York mades sense because of John L. Beetles were huge in Tokyo. The chances of this not being beetle release is getting remote IMHO.
Except that the "he's pointing at 3:00 London time" thing is completely coincidental and silly.
I found this snippet on another website:
"Originally, the album cover showed The Beatles spelling out the word "Help" using the semaphore system of communicating with flags, which was usually used by ships. The photographer didn't like the pose, so he had them hold the flags in a way that looked good, but didn't spell anything."
Most people -- me included (well past 40!), who used to think of himself as an 'audiophile' -- can't tell the difference much between 'lossless' and a 256 kbps AAC file.
Ears change. Listening adjusts. We move on.....
Well, we move backward, to an audio quality on par with vinyl. Please. I am over 40 and low vision all my life. So, I should not be interested in HDTV? My hearing does not extend over 16KHz, and that was tested by a radio engineer in 1980. The roll-off over 12KHz was big. So I have 8-track ears. I am not an audiophile either, but know mush when I hear it. As for moving on, I HATE digital video and audio both. Too many times, the capabilities are grossly abused.
For anyone who uses Windows 7, go to your Public Music folder and listen to, "Kalimba" by Mr. Scruff. A little something called "dynamics" is like gone. It might as well be TV sound.
I am not here to fault the iTunes Store. They can only encode what they are given. Gee, guess I have to fault Barry (I Write The Songs) Manilow, the King of analog compression.
hmmm... The world has changes. We can get the best of both worlds, in fact every worlds. Starting with Lossless music on iTunes, then streaming and lastly AirPlay. Do you see now what will happen?
It's not lossless music, I'd bet my right nut on it, but will a beer suffice?
Streaming and AirPlay to all devices, just not the AppleTV would be nice.
The Beatles are just not that important. They broke up before most current employees at Apple were even born, and the only consumers that remember seeing them play live would be so old now, they probably missed the computer revolution altogether.
I agree they are not important. This is why I think there is just going to be a website announcement on the home page and not a big media event or keynote. The tease just makes sense to me ... as a Beetles announcement, but I hope I'm wrong. I would love an iTunes subscription model or cloud service, but I remain convinced that this will be a Beetles announcement. I admit that i sound like a conspiracy theorist ... and this is a reach, but come on! Paul pointing at 3:00 in the third position from the left that happens to be London time! Just another day song possible reference! iTunes speculation about adding them to the catalog at almost every itunes event announcement.
I think the web-based iTunes model is much too big a deal not to have a press conference or keynote involved. Perhaps Gruber's guesses are the most accurate. He thinks it could be as simple as 4.2 announcement. He admits he is totally speculating. His point is similar to mine ?What could Apple announce without a media event to explain and demo it??.
That's not a bad guess but if that was the case wouldn't the Chinese or Korean websites have announcements?
Both sell iPhone/iPod Touch with China selling the iPad.
It's not lossless music, I'd bet my right nut on it, but will a beer suffice?
Streaming and AirPlay to all devices, just not the AppleTV would be nice.
Another possibility: The announcement of iOS 4.2 -- which we know is coming sometime this month -- with emphasis on wireless syncing of playlists to you iPhones and iPads running iOS 4.2. Seems like I recall an AppleInsider feature roundup a few months back saying wireless syncing of iTunes purchases is likely to be in iOS 4.2.
Not having to sync your iPhone/iPad would be something "you'll never forget" to do because your device will do it automatically.
Developer types: If the announcement involves a massively updated iTunes desktop application and/or iPhone/iPad app with new streaming or subscription features, wouldn't we have heard about Apple testing that in the wild?
Am I the first one to notice that the new iTunes logo looks like a music note sitting in a white cloud in the blue sky? Hence, iTunes is moving to a cloud service, because iTunes is now in the cloud in the sky in its icon.
Just Another Day. Beatles. Makes sense that they'd use a Paul song for the tag line, since he's around to negotiate with. Although the announcement could include improved codecs/streaming/something else tied to the introduction of the Beatles catalog-- possibly something Yoko/assorted rights holders were wanting before they allowed it?
I think maybe people are underestimating the continued appeal of the Beatles. I work in a high school and the kids know and love the entire catalog.
Hmmm...I'm leaning more towards this the more I think about it.
Jobs generation were brought up on the Beatles, so to him it would be a fantastic announcement. And, if what you say is true about high school kids loving the Beatles, then by adding to the iTunes catalogue would help keep the memory alive, hence the "never forget" bit.
Am I the first one to notice that the new iTunes logo looks like a music note sitting in a white cloud in the blue sky? Hence, iTunes is moving to a cloud service, because iTunes is now in the cloud in the sky in its icon.
No but your the first to mention it. iCloud is where my heart is, but my head is now starting to doubt it.
This is true, but how many times have we seen American companies use the song American Woman as if it's a patriotic song?
Or Ronald Reagan wanting to use Born In the USA, obviously clueless as to the meaning of the song.
True enough.
still think it isn't the Beatles though.
I'm currently leaning towards ... "ZOMG! They bought Sony!"
but that's mainly because of the speculation that the times involved would be perfect for the stock markets (the announcement could therefore have bottom line implications).
It could be a lot of things. we'll find out tomorrow
- they announce something totally advanced - magical, radical bla bla.
- people are writing about it! blogs, pages like this etc.
- people switch on their imagination. they imagine the weirdest things (for example that all songs are uncompressed) and have hopes, hopes and even more hopes!
- it isn't important anymore what they show tomorrow. the most important thing is that you WISH and your imagination goes wild. does it go wild already? good! PR worked!
- and tomorrow we will all be very lucky that an event starts, or that we read something. it won't be radical, magical or a breakthrough. it will probably be something that is there already from other companies, but apple has put a red sticker which shiny golden letters "N E W" on it, so we all believe it! new! apple! magical!
i guess they will announce that you can stream your music library. all your BOUGHT songs will be there in their cool datacenter and everything is magical and modern.
we will forget, that apple is now controling IF we hear something, and when the bloody internet line collapses, we will ALSO not hear our songs. it's actually a step backwards, but hey - it FEELS so futuristic and modern! and it is from apple!
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This international clock choice could maybe hints for international expansion of the music and/or movie store? The announcement is made at 07.00 a.m. Cupertino time, quite unusual (usually it is 09 or 10 am). How much I wish the music and movie store could finally come here to the Czech Republic!
Don't get your hopes up, mate. Apple's home pages in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and all of the rest of Central and Eastern Europe show the MacBook Air info, rather than the teaser announcement.
I think Beetles angle its pretty strong. Paul M. Sings a song called "Just Another Day". In Help album cover he's pointing at 3:00 London time. Similar to the London time in this tease. All the other times are backed out to show the release time. Having New York mades sense because of John L. Beetles were huge in Tokyo. The chances of this not being beetle release is getting remote IMHO.
That's a beautiful song and one of my all-time favourites, but I think this suggestion really makes no sense.
"Another Day" is a song about a depressed young woman and evokes feelings of suicide or despair more than anything. I think it an unlikely tie-in to an Apple event that won't (presumably) be about suicide or specifically (we hope) aimed at young women or women who were young in the 1960's.
The times on the clocks are also the times that the announcement is being made so there is no reason to make up "extra" explanations (like the Help! album cover) for their appearance in the ad. That's a classic case of providing an answer to a question that wasn't asked, which is a type of reasoning more prevalent in conspiracy theories than factual situations.
I grew up with the Beatles and have as high opinion of them as anyone, but the idea that Apple is making a world-wide announcement, carefully timed (apparently), around the stock markets opening times in various countries, and that it's all about the Beatles catalogue is just not likely at all.
The Beatles are just not that important. They broke up before most current employees at Apple were even born, and the only consumers that remember seeing them play live would be so old now, they probably missed the computer revolution altogether.
That's a beautiful song and one of my all-time favourites, but I think this suggestion really makes no sense.
"Another Day" is a song about a depressed young woman and evokes feelings of suicide or despair more than anything. I think it an unlikely tie-in to an Apple event that won't (presumably) be about suicide or specifically (we hope) aimed at young women or women who were young in the 1960's.
This is true, but how many times have we seen American companies use the song American Woman as if it's a patriotic song?
Or Ronald Reagan wanting to use Born In the USA, obviously clueless as to the meaning of the song.
Lossless is lossy relative to analog.
Close. Lossless is lossy relative to theoretically perfect analog. Unfortunately, there has never been a physical format that was even close to theoretically perfect. I'll take the expanded dynamic range of CDs over vinyl any day.
I think Beetles angle its pretty strong. Paul M. Sings a song called "Just Another Day". In Help album cover he's pointing at 3:00 London time. Similar to the London time in this tease. All the other times are backed out to show the release time. Having New York mades sense because of John L. Beetles were huge in Tokyo. The chances of this not being beetle release is getting remote IMHO.
Except that the "he's pointing at 3:00 London time" thing is completely coincidental and silly.
I found this snippet on another website:
"Originally, the album cover showed The Beatles spelling out the word "Help" using the semaphore system of communicating with flags, which was usually used by ships. The photographer didn't like the pose, so he had them hold the flags in a way that looked good, but didn't spell anything."
You're exactly right.
Most people -- me included (well past 40!), who used to think of himself as an 'audiophile' -- can't tell the difference much between 'lossless' and a 256 kbps AAC file.
Ears change. Listening adjusts. We move on.....
Well, we move backward, to an audio quality on par with vinyl. Please. I am over 40 and low vision all my life. So, I should not be interested in HDTV? My hearing does not extend over 16KHz, and that was tested by a radio engineer in 1980. The roll-off over 12KHz was big. So I have 8-track ears. I am not an audiophile either, but know mush when I hear it. As for moving on, I HATE digital video and audio both. Too many times, the capabilities are grossly abused.
For anyone who uses Windows 7, go to your Public Music folder and listen to, "Kalimba" by Mr. Scruff. A little something called "dynamics" is like gone. It might as well be TV sound.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_Walling
I am not here to fault the iTunes Store. They can only encode what they are given. Gee, guess I have to fault Barry (I Write The Songs) Manilow, the King of analog compression.
hmmm... The world has changes. We can get the best of both worlds, in fact every worlds. Starting with Lossless music on iTunes, then streaming and lastly AirPlay. Do you see now what will happen?
It's not lossless music, I'd bet my right nut on it, but will a beer suffice?
Streaming and AirPlay to all devices, just not the AppleTV would be nice.
The Beatles are just not that important. They broke up before most current employees at Apple were even born, and the only consumers that remember seeing them play live would be so old now, they probably missed the computer revolution altogether.
I agree they are not important. This is why I think there is just going to be a website announcement on the home page and not a big media event or keynote. The tease just makes sense to me ... as a Beetles announcement, but I hope I'm wrong. I would love an iTunes subscription model or cloud service, but I remain convinced that this will be a Beetles announcement. I admit that i sound like a conspiracy theorist ... and this is a reach, but come on! Paul pointing at 3:00 in the third position from the left that happens to be London time! Just another day song possible reference! iTunes speculation about adding them to the catalog at almost every itunes event announcement.
Well, we'll find out at 10:00 eastern.
I think the web-based iTunes model is much too big a deal not to have a press conference or keynote involved. Perhaps Gruber's guesses are the most accurate. He thinks it could be as simple as 4.2 announcement. He admits he is totally speculating. His point is similar to mine ?What could Apple announce without a media event to explain and demo it??.
That's not a bad guess but if that was the case wouldn't the Chinese or Korean websites have announcements?
Both sell iPhone/iPod Touch with China selling the iPad.
beatles +1
Then they would have said 'Tomorrow is Yesterday.'
It's not lossless music, I'd bet my right nut on it, but will a beer suffice?
Streaming and AirPlay to all devices, just not the AppleTV would be nice.
Another possibility: The announcement of iOS 4.2 -- which we know is coming sometime this month -- with emphasis on wireless syncing of playlists to you iPhones and iPads running iOS 4.2. Seems like I recall an AppleInsider feature roundup a few months back saying wireless syncing of iTunes purchases is likely to be in iOS 4.2.
Not having to sync your iPhone/iPad would be something "you'll never forget" to do because your device will do it automatically.
Developer types: If the announcement involves a massively updated iTunes desktop application and/or iPhone/iPad app with new streaming or subscription features, wouldn't we have heard about Apple testing that in the wild?
It's not lossless music, I'd bet my right nut on it, but will a beer suffice?
Streaming and AirPlay to all devices, just not the AppleTV would be nice.
That's the point. It SHOULD be lossless.
The option for AirPlay, especially for music, will keep growing. It will be standard somewhat.
I agree with your principle (of poor audio runing music for a generation) but iTunes has never done MP3.
ITMS may sell music in other formats, but iTunes has always done mp3.
I have a MacBook Pro with 4 days worth of mp3's ripped at 320 kbps in my iTunes.
Just Another Day. Beatles. Makes sense that they'd use a Paul song for the tag line, since he's around to negotiate with. Although the announcement could include improved codecs/streaming/something else tied to the introduction of the Beatles catalog-- possibly something Yoko/assorted rights holders were wanting before they allowed it?
I think maybe people are underestimating the continued appeal of the Beatles. I work in a high school and the kids know and love the entire catalog.
Hmmm...I'm leaning more towards this the more I think about it.
Jobs generation were brought up on the Beatles, so to him it would be a fantastic announcement. And, if what you say is true about high school kids loving the Beatles, then by adding to the iTunes catalogue would help keep the memory alive, hence the "never forget" bit.
Am I the first one to notice that the new iTunes logo looks like a music note sitting in a white cloud in the blue sky? Hence, iTunes is moving to a cloud service, because iTunes is now in the cloud in the sky in its icon.
No but your the first to mention it. iCloud is where my heart is, but my head is now starting to doubt it.
This is true, but how many times have we seen American companies use the song American Woman as if it's a patriotic song?
Or Ronald Reagan wanting to use Born In the USA, obviously clueless as to the meaning of the song.
True enough.
still think it isn't the Beatles though.
I'm currently leaning towards ... "ZOMG! They bought Sony!"
but that's mainly because of the speculation that the times involved would be perfect for the stock markets (the announcement could therefore have bottom line implications).
It could be a lot of things. we'll find out tomorrow
- they announce something totally advanced - magical, radical bla bla.
- people are writing about it! blogs, pages like this etc.
- people switch on their imagination. they imagine the weirdest things (for example that all songs are uncompressed) and have hopes, hopes and even more hopes!
- it isn't important anymore what they show tomorrow. the most important thing is that you WISH and your imagination goes wild. does it go wild already? good! PR worked!
- and tomorrow we will all be very lucky that an event starts, or that we read something. it won't be radical, magical or a breakthrough. it will probably be something that is there already from other companies, but apple has put a red sticker which shiny golden letters "N E W" on it, so we all believe it! new! apple! magical!
i guess they will announce that you can stream your music library. all your BOUGHT songs will be there in their cool datacenter and everything is magical and modern.
we will forget, that apple is now controling IF we hear something, and when the bloody internet line collapses, we will ALSO not hear our songs. it's actually a step backwards, but hey - it FEELS so futuristic and modern! and it is from apple!