Apple makes announcements across the board
This post was published 3 years 6 months 3 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Seems that we got a case of premature post-u-lation… We’ll post the annoucments as they happen
The iTunes Music Store has been down for the greater part of the morning. The reason? iTunes Music Store will be rebranded as ‘Showtime’. Additional info:
- Welcoming of Media Members
- Discussion on iTunes software, iTMS integration into iTunes, and iTMS sales and facts.
- Announcement of iTunes version 7.0
- Announces better search feature for Music Store
- Announces Movie Store. Available Immediately will be movies from Disney and Pixar, among other studios.
- New iPod Nano Announcement (nice brushed casing, while it will have same features as first gen, only a longer battery life)
- New iPod Announcement (Widescreen, Bluetooth, and featuring virtual touchweel. Does not include Wi-Fi, or any other protocols)
- One More Thing….TubePort. A $99 2-piece set that includes a dongle that connects via USB to your mac, and another dongle that connects via included HD cables or regular Component cables to your TV. The movie is accessed on your Mac via an iDisk-like storage component hosted by Apple.
Frequent the Apple iTunes page for the download of iTunes 7 when it is made available. And after that, check out the Apple Store for product releases ;) Thanks Michael.
Above speculative assumptions to be proven true or false in the next few hours.
I don’t know, I’m still dubious about the leaked agenda for the special event. The TubePort just sounds like too much of an inelegant hack to come out of Apple. That, and a leak of the entire agenda is so out of character for Apple.
That said, the UK iTunes store is also down, and for a while had a slightly more obscure but no more informative error message. Movies for everyone, despite the iTunes divide?
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/11/apples-agenda-for-the-media-event/
Seems that pretty much all http://www.apple.*/store sites are down with “we”ll be back soon”…
These are just rumors, Michael. Don’t take them as facts until 1pm eastern
Derek, not Michael :)
Shh. Everything is coming as planned ;) Showtimes is already delivered.
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/sep_2006/event/index.html
Apple stock down…$71.97 For anyone keeping score at home