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New iTunes? [Merged] *Now Available in Software Update*
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I think they are new now that you mention this, I also don't remember seeing them.
i looked at the history of previous iTunes releases none where released on a Friday so im not counting on seeing it today. There have been releases on Monday and Wednesday so i think we will see it one of those two days!
I wanted a new iTunes to play with tomorrow night while my girlfriend has girls' night and I'm hanging out at home 
I could have sworn like two years ago there was a presentation for a new version of iWork that has still not yet come to be.
What on Earth am I thinking of? And I know that I'm not confusing it with the presentation for the iOS version.
Anyway sorry to go off-topic. I feel like a crazy person if this is all imagined.
iTunes has become an OS onto its own. It is the centre of all things iOS, Apple's principal revenue generator. iCloud has unloaded the burden of a lot of the syncing responsibilities and library management, leaving iTunes to once again be about experiencing music, movies and tv shows.
Replacing the last of the big machine iTunes will require surgical precision and a lot of testing on libraries of all types and sizes. They cannot mess this up. They just can't!
Can you imagine the PR nightmare if people's entire music libraries were corrupted or deleted? Maps would seem like their finest hour in comparison. You can't just expect everybody to have iTunes Match and libraries perfectly sorted out. That's the best case scenario and I'm sure they've nailed it. They gotta get everybody else's libraries converted perfectly as well.
I'm sure Eddy Cue and co. are working over time and now likely over the weekend to meet the October deadline. If I had to guess, they'll release it on the morning of a slow news day for maximum media exposure with all hands on deck and a full day to watch for any unexpected situations.
It's not out now and likely wont be on the weekend. Halloween will dominate newscasts on Wednesday, and Monday is often a busy news day. I'm going to bet Tuesday.
Replacing the last of the big machine iTunes will require surgical precision and a lot of testing on libraries of all types and sizes. They cannot mess this up. They just can't!
Can you imagine the PR nightmare if people's entire music libraries were corrupted or deleted? Maps would seem like their finest hour in comparison. You can't just expect everybody to have iTunes Match and libraries perfectly sorted out. That's the best case scenario and I'm sure they've nailed it. They gotta get everybody else's libraries converted perfectly as well.
I'm sure Eddy Cue and co. are working over time and now likely over the weekend to meet the October deadline. If I had to guess, they'll release it on the morning of a slow news day for maximum media exposure with all hands on deck and a full day to watch for any unexpected situations.
It's not out now and likely wont be on the weekend. Halloween will dominate newscasts on Wednesday, and Monday is often a busy news day. I'm going to bet Tuesday.
It's coming out on Wednesday 31st October.
For the last couple of years the iTunes Festival has been available online until the end of the year, but this year is only available until October 31st (an end date date that was added after the iPad mini event on Tuesday).
I'm guessing that it will simply save Apple time and money re-writing the iTunes Festival page for iTunes 11.
For the last couple of years the iTunes Festival has been available online until the end of the year, but this year is only available until October 31st (an end date date that was added after the iPad mini event on Tuesday).
I'm guessing that it will simply save Apple time and money re-writing the iTunes Festival page for iTunes 11.
They did demo some new stuff with iWork to do with iCloud, but that was just rolled out as an update to iWork 09.
Unfortunately as an update to iWork 09 *on mountain lion*. My 2006 MBP finally got cut off from OS X upgrades, so my dream of clean iPad/iPhone/MBP syncing was dashed.
Wouldn't they possibly want to launch on a day that won't get it much media coverage? If they really think something might go wrong then that would be better than having all eyes focused on the launch (see: the MobileMe/iPhone 3G/iOS 2 launch on the same day).
I just had an idea. Maybe Apple was going to release iTunes 11 with the new music streaming feature, but the legal delays are causing a delay in the release.
They wouldn't delay because of that. They have been released services without general approvement to prove it works, so if the majority of the record labels didn't want to sign their new service (I don't think so), they would've just released it with few songs (from the small labels that signed)... that way in the near future the other labels would sign and they would increase the service. iTunes Store in the very beginning was like this.
The goal was probably to release it at the media event earlier this week. But something didn't go as planed so they gave the team "one week to fix it". I think we will see the new iTunes on Tuesday.
Hopefully we will not be too disappointed when it finally arrives. I know there will always be someone complaining over how the latest update destroyed everything and made it unusable…
Hopefully we will not be too disappointed when it finally arrives. I know there will always be someone complaining over how the latest update destroyed everything and made it unusable…
looking forward to itunes 11,
its a shame they didnt push it with the ipad event
but hopefully the delay means, it will be in good order
its a shame they didnt push it with the ipad event
but hopefully the delay means, it will be in good order
It's working fine thanks /) but I'm very much looking forward to a refreshed UI, since its been unchanged for years an years
iTunes is so poor compared to whats available on Windows. iTunes can't even do multiple genres and artists amongst many other things. WHat ajoke it can't do multiple genres.
Um... what do you mean? You can easily sort your music by genres and artists.
Shouldn't there be a iOS and Apple TV update with iTunes 11 as well since they both use iTunes??
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