In what has now become the most frequent and most frequently unrequited Apple rumor, the company did not announce the availability of Beatles songs on iTunes. Despite featuring Paul McCartney in an iTunes commercial, and Steve Jobs downloading a John Lennon song and a McCartney song during the intro of the iPod Touch, the Beatles catalog is still unavailable for sale as a download.
The only reason I care any more is because it’s such a tease. Jobs is a Beatles fanatic. The lawsuit with Apple Corps is settled. At the end of the day, it’s not a big deal, because everyone who likes the Beatles owns their music in other formats already, but this is just starting to get bizarre.
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4 responses to “Sorry, Folks. No Beatles on iTunes.”
Not sure it’s that bizzare. The Beatles catalogue is being remastered – so it would be strange to put the existing stuff on iTunes now, only for it to be ‘upgraded’ later. Better to have a major event when EMI and Apple combine to announce the new CDs and the iTunes files. Just a prediction.
I did wonder if the ‘one more thing’ today, and the mystery guest CEO, would be Beatles on iTunes and the EMI CEO announcing the CDs being released for Christmas … but no.
It’ll come and, in the meantime, the existing stuff ripped to iTunes/iPod sounds pretty good.
Maybe in the great tradition of the Beatles rumours (“Paul is dead”), Jobs just likes messin’ with us? If you run your finder in a counter clockwise direction on the new iPod Classic, it will endlessly repeat “number 9 number 9 number 9 number 9”