Apple posts mysterious message on homepage, iTunes announcement due tomorrow

Denied.

its a release of verizon iphone – confirmed.

Yes, one of those announcements that is centered around metrics: x billion downloads, x hundred thousand apps, etc.

did you mean served? severed would be a scary headline…

That would be genius.

Why would they want to do that. It’s a competitive advantage for the iPhone. While they generate tons of revenue on iTunes content, they give it practically at cost after credit card processing fees. Actual profit from the iTunes store is quite irrelevant for them. They just use it to sell more iPods and iPhones and iPads.

Whatever they announce tomorrow, I’m about 1000% positive that will not be it.

Yeah, like he did w/ ms courier! That guy is always out to steal somebody else’s thunder…

Generally speaking Apple doesn’t invent, they reinvent and they’re usually pretty damn successful at it! They take their time, find either dead, ailing or under exploited technologies, reinvent them in a user/consumer friendly, mass marketable sort of way and then magically profit all while keeping investors very very happy! I hate to say it, but until the iPad the tablet computer was an obscure, under exploited, and some would say dying technology. Whether you love it, hate it or dont even care one thing is certain; the iPad has started to revolutionize the industry. Not that it’s the best tablet out there, not because it has the best software, not because it’s the creates thing since sliced bread…. It’s success lies in the fact that Apple knows that the majority of consumers(not geeks) that use iDevice generally use them for content consumption, not creation. They realized that the touch interfaces of the past were not finger friendly and that full fledged OSes are to cumbersome and were never intended for touch. So by tailoring an OS to perform the tasks that MOST CONSUMERS want to perform on the go and by coupling it with a thin, light, portable piece of hardware and by having an existing trained user base to exploit they were set from announcement day! And like or not this is the winning combo and is what is transforming the industry – Light portable hardware, a touch friendly OS, an existing userbase and wait for it… Apps! While android has made great strides in mobile and some could argue this as a result of fragmentation they still have a way to go with tablets. A – up until now Apple has been the only game in town, and in alot of cases still largely is. B – they’ve had almost a years headstart

I think your time machine went forward instead of back…

unlikely.

OMG, anyone who types like that should be banned.

people who use MAC products do not type like this

I’m thinking along the same lines. Because this announcement just surfaced, and was scheduled 24 hours after Facebook’s recent “Messaging” service, I imagine that Apple either has:

a) shoehorned a bunch of junk onto Ping, to try to compete with Facebook’s announcement, or
b) Apple worked out a negotiation to implement Facebook accounts directly into iTunes, thereby tossing Ping to the curb.

I’m not a fan of either Facebook or Apple’s technologies; but the second option, in my opinion, would be a very sensible merging of two ecosystems. Users of both would go crazy!