Apple posts mysterious message on homepage, iTunes announcement due tomorrow

This morning, Apple posted a mysterious message on its homepage. With instructions to “check back here tomorrow” the note alludes to an “exciting announcement from iTunes.” We’re not certain whether Apple will announce another iTunes milestone — billions and billions served — or if there is something else in the works from the Cupertino company (Beatles catalog, cloud computing?). We’ll find out tomorrow at 10:00AM ET.

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Cparlin

First

Bert

Denied.

Cparlin

Denied what? I was first.

TheNewReign

Alert the Apple haters!!!

“BGR you are such an Apple Fanboy” “All you ever do is cover Apple”
“BGR, no one cares. This company doesn’t make anything anyone wants to buy”
“So what, Apple on has 200 million iTunes users that pay for content, like that is anything big”
“Zune Market has at least 300,000 users, so suck on that Apple”

VZW

its a release of verizon iphone – confirmed.

Eh270

beatles.
Bert

Please for the love of good- Cloud Itunes. Sick to death of syncing etc.
Donny

Im hoping Cloud. I already own all of the Beatles albums and don’t need special iBeatles mp3s. Verizon iphone would be nice too….
Anonymous

Cloud. Cloud Cloud.

I hate that every time I build new PC and install/move iTunes, it: 1) takes forever, and 2) ALWAYS duplicates each song.
Butts

Billions and billions severed?

http://www.bgr.com Andrew Munchbach

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

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

http://twitter.com/MattSTKC Matthew H.

wireless sync? AirTunes? Free Download of Ke$ha?
Dream

Breaking News: Itunes will now sync with all smartphone devices!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Donny

That would be genius.
Anonymous

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.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4AV25K6ISODU6FBDBHCEYIYHSA Ken

Of Course your Possitive it wont be that, Apple has Never “played Nice” & Never Will.
#1 reason I have owned over 12 Android devices & NOT one Apple product…
DaGiff7

12 Android devices!!! Do you use them as baseballs on the weekend?
Anonymous

No arguments here. They definitely don’t play nice. Still waiting for them to open up FaceTime like Jobs said they would.

Anonymous

Maybe a rebuild of the severely-bloated iTunes software?
http://twitter.com/goodman Goodman Holiday

Please, please be cloud computing. I hate backing up files. I buy videos on Amazon On Demand instead of iTunes because I love the way my purchases are backed up on the cloud, instead of on disks. iTunes has content Amazon doesn’t though. It would also be great to have easy access to all the iTunes content I’ve ever purchased on my iPad and iPhone without eating up all the storage.
Anonymous

Welcoming news from Apple, but there goes my internet bandwidth cap. Thanks to Bell Canada, I only get 25GB to play with, without paying excess bandwidth charge. Every GB is $2 =(
http://www.facebook.com/thatginzo Dante Giugliano

VERIZON IPHONE 4

hahah just kidding. but android/webOS syncing would be nice!
http://twitter.com/pierreroux Pierre

Live stream release
Anonymous

maybe we finally get the 4.2 software update…
http://twitter.com/netposer Rob Baker

“billions and billions servered”??? Served?
QNX Please

Chances are it will be something released years ago on other phones, but now Steve Jobs will take credit for inventing it, and call it magical and revolutionary.

http://www.ignorethepoor.com topper24hours

Yeah, like he did w/ ms courier! That guy is always out to steal somebody else’s thunder…
http://twitter.com/Obj_me Michael Hurlburt

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

cb

I bet they are going to enter the mobile phone market – maybe modeled after their ipod or something like that.

Anonymous

I think your time machine went forward instead of back…

p.mcgee

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Anonymous

unlikely.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BHMB52ZFMATI5KS7D4JT6UU7NA Eric W

OMG, anyone who types like that should be banned.
blahblahhhhh

people who use MAC products do not type like this

Booboolala2000

Maybe they are wising up and launching an iTunes app for Android and Blackberry. Could be a full iTunes app or just a music streaming app to compete with Pandora, Slacker, and all the others.
Not going to be the Beatles. If it ever would Paul, Yoko and etc would be the ones to announce that.
Anonymous

Who cares about Beatles? They are already very late to digital age.
VladimirPootin85

Hopefully it’s cloud storage….
http://twitter.com/markpalmos Mark Palmos

i piss on their parade
http://twitter.com/hawaiiinsomniac hawaiiinsomniac

Tomorrow at Tuesday, 5AM Hawaii Standard Time, I will be asleep. o_O
Sky

They will come out and say about her new and improved ping crap.

Privateblinky

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!