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Several sources, most importantly the Wall Street Journal, have reported that today's Apple announcement will be that Apple will bring the Beatles catalog to iTunes. If so, it will be bring to an end the longest running Apple "rumor" of the Jobs' era, and may be somewhat of a disappointment to those hoping for something a bit more substantive. Upon reflection an announcement like this might make more sense.
Apple's home page teaser about tomorrow's iTunes announcement might be the start of a transition of iTunes to the Cloud. The following is excerpted from an article about the future of iTunes that will appear in the next issue of iPhone Life (which has already gone to press).
I will follow with more tonight and after the announcement tomorrow. iTunes is Apple’s most widely distributed program ever and by far its most successful. It’s the only Apple program that touches every major Apple product—the glue that ties together Macs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, and MobileMe.
by Bryan Schmiedeler When the iPhone was introduced in June 2007, AT&T’s 2-year contract required a data plan—there was no cell-only option. But the pricing of $30 a month for unlimited data was groundbreaking. The carrier killed the unlimited option exactly three years later. Existing agreements are honored as long as you don’t let them lapse, but all new users have to choose between a 200MB/month ($15/month) or 2GB/month data plan ($25/month). Going over your data limit is not cheap: $15 for an additional 200MB or $10 for 1GB, depending on your plan.
The Apple Tablet What’s bigger than an iPhone, smaller than a MacBook, and the most anticipated Apple product since the original iPhone - the Apple Tablet. The expected late January announcement of the long anticipated device (purported to be called the “iSlate”) might not materialize, but it’s clear Apple has something big in store for 2010. While the web has been awash in rumors and speculation for months, few have asked the most salient question: what will the product do for users that an iPhone or a laptop doesn’t already do? Apple has a history of only releasing products that fulfill a clear market need.
When Apple released the iPhone in 2007 its smart phone competitors – Microsoft, Nokia, RIM and Palm – primarily were focused on business users. Apple’s product was marketed at consumers who wanted smart phone functionality wrapped in Apple’s renowned user interface and ease of use. This combination has been a phenomenal success over the last 2 and 1/2 years, but now has spawned imitators like Google’s Android platform and Palm’s webOS. But Apple is not resting on its laurels. Here’s what you should expect from the 4th version of the iPhone. Hardware
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Over the weekend T-Mobile made it official: Sidekick mobile phone users have irretrievably lost their data stored on Microsoft servers. It seems that Hitachti was hired to do a SAN upgrade and, stunningly, Microsoft did not back up their servers.
When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone at MacWorld on January 9, 2007 he called it “an iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator” – three devices in one. The subsequent evolution of the iPhone into a computing platform with the launch of the app store a year and a half later meant the functions an iPhone could perform were limited only by developer’s imagination. There are many excellent apps that enable you to track the news, sports, the weather, or find restaurants, movies, your friends (and even public bathrooms), play games or listen to music. And there are many not so excellent apps; I am talking about you, iFart.
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