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Apple makes announcements across the board

Posted in AV, Apple, Cool, Entertainment by Derek at 11:11 am
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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.

8 Responses to “Apple makes announcements across the board”

  1. Alasdair Allan says:
    9/12/2006 at 11:21 am

    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?

  2. Chris says:
    9/12/2006 at 11:22 am

    http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/11/apples-agenda-for-the-media-event/

  3. Dedko says:
    9/12/2006 at 11:41 am

    Seems that pretty much all http://www.apple.*/store sites are down with “we”ll be back soon”…

  4. Javier says:
    9/12/2006 at 11:49 am

    These are just rumors, Michael. Don’t take them as facts until 1pm eastern

  5. Javier says:
    9/12/2006 at 11:54 am

    Derek, not Michael :)

  6. Derek says:
    9/12/2006 at 12:12 pm

    Shh. Everything is coming as planned ;) Showtimes is already delivered.

  7. Chris says:
    9/12/2006 at 12:16 pm

    http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/sep_2006/event/index.html

  8. Chris says:
    9/12/2006 at 1:26 pm

    Apple stock down…$71.97 For anyone keeping score at home

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