The Beatles Appear In iTunes

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/11/16/the-beatles-appear-in-itunes-store/

by thehodge • 16 years ago

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jgrahamc• 16 years ago

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

whakojacko• 16 years 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• 16 years 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.

nodata2• 16 years ago

Apple really screwed up with this one. Now they look out of touch..

michael_dorfman2• 16 years 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?

thehodge• 16 years 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• 16 years ago

Zzz.

Is this announcement any more seismic over in the music industry?

(Is there a music industry equivalent to HN? Hack News?)

epo2• 16 years 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_dorfman2• 16 years 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.

epo2• 16 years 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• 16 years ago

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

THREE!

AndrewDucker• 16 years ago

Because TWO was not enough, and THREE is ONE HIGHER!

Robin_Message• 16 years 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• 16 years 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• 16 years 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.

The Beatles Appear In iTunes

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