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The Beatles Appear In iTunes

11 points by thehodge 16y ago

jgrahamc 16y ago
Yawn. If you wanted the Beatles on your iPod you could have gone out and bought the CDs and ripped them.
- whakojacko 16y ago
  ...Or otherwise acquired them. This is a letdown for how much they were hyping it out. Was I too optimistic to hope for something that I would actually never forget, like cloud-based iTunes?
  - NathanKP 16y ago
    The average consumer doesn't care about a cloud-based iTunes. The Beatles are something that they will never forget, but they don't care about the technical delivery method. They just want the content.
- nodata 16y ago
  Apple really screwed up with this one. Now they look out of touch..
  - michael_dorfman 16y ago
    How did Apple screw up? Did they produce any PR besides the one teaser page on the iTunes site, which ran for a day? Is it their fault that the tech media ran wild with it?
    - nodata 16y ago
      They hyped something DULL. Apple knows exactly what the tech media will do with it, that's why they ran a teaser.
thehodge 16y ago
I'm quite surprised at the level of 'upmph' that has been given to this announcement... we all knew it was going to happen one day but to be honest, it makes no difference to anyone.. most people already had the beatles on there iPod years ago...
benwerd 16y ago
Zzz. Is this announcement any more seismic over in the music industry? (Is there a music industry equivalent to HN? Hack News?)
mwg66 16y ago
Yeah, that wasn't cool at all Apple. And you're right, I will always remember this day. I remember the day you pulled that terrible PR stunt.
epo 16y ago
Meh! Apple's marketing department needs to go back on their meds, the only thing we will never forget is how overhyped this announcement was. In the UK the White Album on iTunes is £17.99, on Amazon it is £12.99, what am I missing?
- michael_dorfman 16y ago
  What am I missing? What, exactly, did Apple's marketing department do to hype (much less overhype) this announcement? It seems to me that there was a cryptic teaser page on the iTunes site for 24 hours. It's hard to imagine a more low-key launch, other than silently adding the Beatles albums to the iTunes catalog. It seems to me that it is the tech media who need to have their meds adjusted.
  - epo 16y ago
    Apple's teaser suggested an unforgettable announcement, this must have been designed to fuel speculation. The disappointed backlash will be quite funny, and deserved.
mcantor 16y ago
Why are there THREE stories about this on the front page of HACKER NEWS?! THREE!
- AndrewDucker 16y ago
  Because TWO was not enough, and THREE is ONE HIGHER!
Robin_Message 16y ago
Is that it?!??! We were all set for music streaming and we get the back catalogue of a fairly influential band whose label had a long standing trademark dispute with iTunes over the word Apple.
spoiledtechie 16y ago
Can we please stop posting popular stories on Hacker News? If I wanted to know that the Beatles Album came out, I could have gone to ANY news source.
joshus 16y ago
Apple never introduced products "You'll never forget" without a media event. Apple would describe their products as "magical", "amazing", or "revolutionary", but "Tomorrow is another day", "You'll never forget" is personal. It has an obvious sense of lyrics. And music, include that from the Beatles, is to most people unforgettable. People has an attachment to music on a whole different level compared to technologies, which are replaceable and in most cases just tools to get things done, like listen to music. Anybody who knows Apple wouldn't expect anything other than Beatles from yesterday's tease.

11 points by thehodge 16y ago

jgrahamc 16y ago

Yawn. If you wanted the Beatles on your iPod you could have gone out and bought the CDs and ripped them.

whakojacko 16y ago
...Or otherwise acquired them. This is a letdown for how much they were hyping it out. Was I too optimistic to hope for something that I would actually never forget, like cloud-based iTunes?
- NathanKP 16y ago
  The average consumer doesn't care about a cloud-based iTunes. The Beatles are something that they will never forget, but they don't care about the technical delivery method. They just want the content.
nodata 16y ago
Apple really screwed up with this one. Now they look out of touch..
- michael_dorfman 16y ago
  How did Apple screw up? Did they produce any PR besides the one teaser page on the iTunes site, which ran for a day? Is it their fault that the tech media ran wild with it?
  - nodata 16y ago
    They hyped something DULL. Apple knows exactly what the tech media will do with it, that's why they ran a teaser.

thehodge 16y ago

I'm quite surprised at the level of 'upmph' that has been given to this announcement... we all knew it was going to happen one day but to be honest, it makes no difference to anyone.. most people already had the beatles on there iPod years ago...

benwerd 16y ago

Zzz. Is this announcement any more seismic over in the music industry? (Is there a music industry equivalent to HN? Hack News?)

mwg66 16y ago

Yeah, that wasn't cool at all Apple. And you're right, I will always remember this day. I remember the day you pulled that terrible PR stunt.

epo 16y ago

Meh! Apple's marketing department needs to go back on their meds, the only thing we will never forget is how overhyped this announcement was. In the UK the White Album on iTunes is £17.99, on Amazon it is £12.99, what am I missing?

michael_dorfman 16y ago
What am I missing? What, exactly, did Apple's marketing department do to hype (much less overhype) this announcement? It seems to me that there was a cryptic teaser page on the iTunes site for 24 hours. It's hard to imagine a more low-key launch, other than silently adding the Beatles albums to the iTunes catalog. It seems to me that it is the tech media who need to have their meds adjusted.
- epo 16y ago
  Apple's teaser suggested an unforgettable announcement, this must have been designed to fuel speculation. The disappointed backlash will be quite funny, and deserved.

mcantor 16y ago

Why are there THREE stories about this on the front page of HACKER NEWS?! THREE!

AndrewDucker 16y ago
Because TWO was not enough, and THREE is ONE HIGHER!

Robin_Message 16y ago

Is that it?!??! We were all set for music streaming and we get the back catalogue of a fairly influential band whose label had a long standing trademark dispute with iTunes over the word Apple.

spoiledtechie 16y ago

Can we please stop posting popular stories on Hacker News? If I wanted to know that the Beatles Album came out, I could have gone to ANY news source.

joshus 16y ago

Apple never introduced products "You'll never forget" without a media event. Apple would describe their products as "magical", "amazing", or "revolutionary", but "Tomorrow is another day", "You'll never forget" is personal. It has an obvious sense of lyrics. And music, include that from the Beatles, is to most people unforgettable. People has an attachment to music on a whole different level compared to technologies, which are replaceable and in most cases just tools to get things done, like listen to music. Anybody who knows Apple wouldn't expect anything other than Beatles from yesterday's tease.