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Apple Announces Beatles Collection
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- NathanKP 16y agoFor me at least the iTunes page is still showing the grandiose message "Tomorrow is just another day. That you will never forget." so I don't think this is the announcement. If it is, then someone got the big scoop on the story before the announcement was even made. Edit: disregard this, I was wrong. I cleared the cache and now I'm seeing the Beatles announcement.
- shrikant 16y agoMust be a cached version. The announcement was slated for 15.00 GMT, and it's right on the money.
- kieranyo 16y agoThat was it? One more thing?
- growt 16y agodownvote me to hell, but: booooring! I was hoping for streaming :(
- Tyrannosaurs 16y agoGruber was right last night when he pointed out that it was never going to be anything that big else they'd be hosting a full event for it. It's nice and a nice bit of PR for Apple but nothing more. It's not as if this is music that was unavailable, it's just music that was unavailable on iTunes. It was always going to happen sooner or later.
- latch 16y agoUghh...truly I was hoping this wouldn't make it on here.
- natep 16y agoWell, the announcement post got >100 upvotes, so I think it's appropriate that the follow-up gets to the front page (even if it's anticlimactic).
- sandipc 16y agotoday's a day I won't forget? The day Apple announced yet another way to buy songs from the world's most popular band?
- vic_nyc 16y agoIs Apple starting to 'cry wolf' a bit too much lately? :) Funnily enough, I already forgot what day it was.
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- tvon 16y agoHas Apple ever made a major announcement via website update? I mean, it seemed kind of silly to expect major changes from this...
- DrJokepu 16y agoIt's a reference to Beatles's[del][del][del] Paul McCartney's song "Another Day". And this is kind of a big deal as Beatles was one of the last really big top-tier bands that blocked every attempt to distribute their records online. They still cannot be streamed on Spotify but it's just a question of time now. I feel that many people here don't really appreciate the importance of this. This is really the beginning of the end of the old ways of the music recording industry, and a new music recording industry is emerging right now. Very interesting times indeed for those of us who are working in this field or anyone who loves music. And yes, it was Apple, not any of the major record labels or consumer electronics companies that has brought us this change.
- coliveira 16y agoI think this is more like the end of the end... The traditional model is dead for many years already.
- Tyrannosaurs 16y ago
- itg 16y agoThis was blown way out of proportion by the media. Did anyone really think Apple would introduce streaming without Steve Jobs doing a presentation on it?
- noodle 16y agothis was blown way out of proportion by apple, too. they had the big, ominous message on their front page, and it wasn't that different of a cryptic message than what they usually post up for other actual product announcements.
- roc 16y agoThe media has no vested interest in maintaining skepticism anymore, on any event, in any context. People keep coming back to the respective sites no matter how many times they blow minor things out of proportion. No matter how many times they construct huge stories around zero facts. No matter how many times they skew things into a false dichotomy to rile up bases. No matter how many times they ignore the important in favor of the soundbite. So, yeah, of course it was blown out of proportion. They had nothing else easy to write about that would garner half as much attention as veiled promises of magic from Cupertino on an otherwise quiet Monday.
- jokermatt999 16y agoHacker News was a part of that too though. There was a 100+ comment thread speculating what it would be.
- sainttex 16y agoThis still doesn't explain why I haven't been able to add new applications to iTunes Connect for the past few days, until now. They seriously stopped that process for this?
- sainttex 16y agoWhy the downvotes? This morning after they launched this, you could once again add apps and they'd actually show up in iTunes Connect.
- sigzero 16y agoI am at a loss for words. Mostly because they are bads ones and I don't like being negative.
- umjames 16y agoI should have figured as much, but part of me was hoping it was something like the official release of iOS 4.2. I figured it was November, and we already knew what the features were going to be, so no need for Jobs to give a presentation. I just couldn't figure out what would make it a day I'd never forget. I guess I'm still wondering what about this is something I'd never forget.
- panacea 16y agoOk, let's assume everyone knows who The Beatles are and will never forget them or their music (and above a certain age that is a more than reasonable assumption). So the teaser banner said: "Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never forget." Post announcement, you can read it as: "Today is just another day that you'll never forget The Beatles." Which is true (even though it was deceptive... but it was just a teaser banner on a website after all).
- MykalM 16y agoI not sure if they will make alot of money, If i remember right the copyright for the Beatles earliest songs are about to expire, i am wonder if EMI is doing this to squeeze any money out of these song?
- bonaldi 16y agoThe copyright on the original vinyl performances is going to expire, hence the rash of remastering. New works = fresh copyright.
- barclay 16y agoJesus. I had never realized that.
- jonhendry 16y agoEMI probably hopes they do. That company's been crapping itself, losing artists, etc. I mean, they lost Queen recently.
- MykalM 16y agoI not sure if they will make alot of money, If i remember right the copyright for the Beatles earliest songs are about to expire, i am wonder if EMI is doing this to squeeze any money out of these song?
- xentronium 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v._Apple_Computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v._Apple_Computer somehow relevant.
- celticjames 16y agoAnyone know the technical details? DRM? Remastered recordings? Bitrates? Available in all markets? i see that Live at the BBC, Anthology, and Yellow Submarine Songtrack (not Soundtrack) are not there. So not quite compleat beatles.
- G_Wen 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Store#File_format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Store#File_format 256kbps .m4a file with an option to convert to an .mp3. For anyone who takes music quality seriously the lack of a lossless option is a big turn off. No DRM on the purchases unless you live in Japan where some albums are covered by DRM. Will do more research when I get home.
- modernerd 16y agoWorth noting that the dispute dates back to 1978, so it's a big deal for many that it's come to an end; perhaps not for people who aren't interested in buying music they already own, but the achievement's still worth celebrating. It's hard for Apple to announce anything quietly these days, so I think they've managed it pretty well; a leak to the WSJ, an understated holding page (albeit with a rather bold claim), and a stylish full-screen feature on the homepage. Anything bolder might have raised even more false hopes of something 'bigger'. Anything more demure and it might have failed to give credit to a quarrel that's lasted over three decades.