Leaked iTunes 9 Screenshots: Fake or For Real?
1:17 pm, August 19th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
Boy Genius Report published Wednesday what the blog reports as screenshots of iTunes 9 sent in by a “tipster”. The screenshots, whose “authenticity cannot be confirmed”, purport to show Facebook integration as well as sync capability extended to a Samsumg mp3 player.
For what it’s worth, a source intimately knowledgeable with the production of Apple help and support documentation told Cult of Mac during a recent conversation not to expect social media integration with the release of iTunes 9, which our source described only as “coming soon”. The most interesting and useful upgrade confirmed for the next version of iTunes is going to be the ability to order and organize iPhone and iPod Touch app screens from the iTunes desktop.
With nearly three weeks until the still-rumored, not-yet-officially-announced Apple Media Event thought to be taking place in San Francisco on September 9, the Apple rumor mill will in all likelihood continue to spit and pop all kinds of interesting ideas. And in all likelihood no one will really know what’s coming until the John Mayer music (or whoever…) fades…
Hit the jump for more screeenshots
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Rumors, Top stories, iTunes | Comment on this article
Looks pretty real to me …
ungaro, on August 19th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
If Apple doesn’t provide some kind of app-sorting functionality, I may have to drive to Cupertino and throttle someone.
Craig Grannell, on August 19th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
looks real.. according to the pictures you can import dvds into itunes. Didn’t realplayer just get in trouble for this? I wonder how that will work
tom, on August 19th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
i call fake. for a few reasons
but a big one being that there have been several lawsuits over the DVD ripping thing and all the software lost
also after what they did to Palm, can’t see them letting another company legally sync
I would believe
1. app organization
2. facebook etc integration. it would help to promote sales. but the links won’t be that ugly (they would never show an HTTP link that is so not)
3. dropping DVD player as a stand alone and putting into itunes
I would also believe (though not rumored)
1. giving movie trailers and music videos each their own sub library
2. changing the name to iMedia
3. a move towards also supporting playback of Blu-ray if one has a stand alone player
Lucas, on August 19th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
They’re fake, people on macrumors have torn them apart 1000 different ways.
macrumors_reader, on August 19th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Not sure on this one.
It seems a lot of effort to go to for iTunes. Sure people like it, but it is really good enough for people to feel the need to create fake shots? Mac tablets & netbooks yes. But iTunes? Its just not glamorous.
Could this be real?
Ben Gribbin, on August 19th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
I just don’t understand all the Bluray rumors. I mean, iTunes doesn’t play standard DVDs, why would it be used to play BluRay?
Gene, on August 19th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I’m sorry but fake screenshots of a new itunes version is about the gayest news you could waste anyone’s time on.
Brian Burke, on August 23rd, 2009 at 12:23 am
@Brian Burke: the gayest news? Really? I’m sorry, but that’s about the least articulate comment anyone has ever made one a post of mine.
Lonnie Lazar, on August 23rd, 2009 at 1:04 am
Not sure if these work on iTunes yet iTunes http://bit.ly/habXs
NESRA, on September 9th, 2009 at 1:09 pm