1,000 Songs in your pocket changed everything. Here we go again. Watch Apple CEO Steve Jobs deliver a special announcement from San Francisco’s Moscone West. See the video-on-demand event right here exclusively in QuickTime and MPEG-4.
More info and link to the QuickTime video (TRT = 1:04:57) here.
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Anyone have a clue as to how you can download and save the stream to your computer? The old method that worked up thru MWSF 2005 no longer works… 🙁
Apple does it again… the impossible!
Thanks, Steve!
Usually, I get entertained watching the competition try to catch up, but now it is no longer a contest. In many ways I pity them. Will they ever learn to stop challenging Apple?
I think I need some more Apple stock.
version 7.02 and still the general volume is too low 🙁
but I ordered a Nono..woohoooo!!!!!
eh crap..excitement got the better of me..Nano!!!!
Hey, it’s uncensored too! Good on Apple
Is anyone else having trouble getting to this clip – I get sent to a page which shows the WWDC video instead…! 🙁
I can’t view the stream….takes me to the right page, click on the link and it launches Quicktime but never plays. Other streams work fine.
On the phone product:
It’s nice to see companies which are arguably the best in their fields working together on a product.
And yea, sure, it only holds 100 songs, but you can bet this is because they need growth – the next model will hold 250 (or maybe 1000 even). Plus they don’t want to cannibalize sales for the iPods.
Surely the best news is that they’re not forcing consumers to spend stupid amounts of money on getting songs into the phone, as had previously been suggested (you know $3 a song and so on.)
Dan B-0
update QuickTime and try
Hey, it’s uncensored too! Good on Apple
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huh? what.. a Ballmer/Gates/Google reference?
No, the end of the the announcement has Kanye West performing and none of the lyrics were bleeped out
The version I saw was censored. In particular, the lyrics to ‘Gold Digger’ have been changed a bit. Still, I give credit to Apple for not changing their mind about Kanye West performing on their show; a lot of Republicans do not like people who criticize George Bush, especially someone who does it on live television.
is it just me or do those other CEOs look like douche-bags when they try and hype their products? It really makes one appreciate how good Steve is at his job.
There can be only one.
/surprised they let Kanye back on TV so soon
//Apple evidently does care about black people
I thought it was a MUSIC EVENT,
not some no talent running his mouth over a canned rhythm track.
If it’s about the music somebody missed.
Musicians either play an instrument, sing or do both.
Rap is NOT music.
“Rap is NOT music.”
Did you just emerge from under a rock? I would like to welcome you to the year 2005.
“Rap is NOT music.”
Pretty close to the truth … the best that can be said is that Rap resembles drum-beats due to its use of rhythm. But even the best
Rap pales into comparison with moderately good rock, pop, jazz and
classical music. Hard to compete with musical melody (and lyrics). I suppose one can view Rap as a minimalistic extreme … some of the best Rap seems quite good but I’m rarely in the mood for even that!
I guess music is like painting to some extent, some of the modern abstract stuff is technically quite good and a major achievement but
pale into comparison with more realistic paintings; I really want to
make the point that to me the most artistry relies on a balance between realism and abstractness … but I think I’m talking off the cuff
too much … suffering bicycle-fatigue right now … saving a few shekels off filling my car with petrol!
I’m sure it could be related to the fact that a balance of order and disorder produces a more natural music (or painting) which we as humans are generally more in tune (!!) with … Rap has too much order
(or sometimes disorder in terms of white noise!) to be generally enjoyable most of the time … much classical music tends to easy to listen too much of the time …
MW is amount as in the above Spiel may not amount to much …
Is anyone else having trouble with this QT stream?
It’s complete BS…RS…all types of S.
Completely unwatchable.
I am always confused why Apple doesn’t give us something we can download and then run from our Macs.
Not good enough!
Yeah, what the heck is the deal with the feed. The quicktimes of the events were more watchable in the pre-H264 days. When it comes thru for a few seconds it is beautiful quality but then it freezes and pixelates out.
Maybe the akamai server is maxxed out? I tried watching the WWDC keynote and it was the same. I don’t think the problem is at my end cuz I am on a PowerMac dual 2.7 gig unit with 100 Mbps down fiber optic connection (albeit in Japan).
Maybe they are being too ambitious on the size/quality. I can watch the 2004 Paris Expo Stream with no problem and it seems to be in a bit smaller format:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/expo04/
C’mon Apple! Get your act together on this. A lot of new potential Apple users may go to watch this and get a bad impression. It would be better to have slightly lower quality but a solid stream.
Congratulations Kayne West, someone needs to tell the truth about racist Bush and his Republication arsehole friends who don’t like nasty things said about them.
Tough shit guys, it’s a FREE WORLD and we can say what you are – a bunch of greedy, ugly, racist, disgusting human beings.
If you want to come and talk about it, then I’m all ears.
Fuck Kanye West up his stupid ass! Kanye and these so-called black leaders are the true racists.
WHENEVER I harbour doubts about socialism, there’s a few tricks to re-ignite the flame. Out comes a Dennis Skinner tape or The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Or out I head to a certain Fulham pub to hear voices so far back they precede Adam, whining about life’s big problems. Like whether to spend a gap year in Kathmandu or Klosters. But this week all I’ve had to do is watch the heartbreak in New Orleans to see the finest advert for socialism since Victorians sent infants up chimneys. Hurricane Katrina has exposed how the Third World is encouraged to fester just below the surface of the First World. How the richest nation on Earth stays rich by keeping millions of its people poorly paid, poorly educated, and badly looked after. So that when catastrophe strikes, the weakest stay mired in their own cesspit, while the well-paid, well-insured, well-educated ones get out.
How do you end up with corpses floating past the hungry and thirsty six days after a hurricane in the USA in 2005? Simple. You vote in a right-wing, neo-con government that sees collectivism, subsidies and community projects as the devil’s work. You slash the engineering budget to build up New Orleans levees and privatise parts of the national emergency agency, to give tax cuts to the rich. You divert resources and manpower to a war in Iraq, fought on behalf of oil companies, paid for by the blood of soldiers who come from the same poor people you leave to rot in their shacks. You ignore evidence which says corporate America pollutes the planet so badly the Gulf of Mexico is two degrees hotter, making hurricanes more lethal.
And when Katrina strikes, and the poorest have been left destitute and dying, what do those same leaders do?
George Bush carries on playing guitar for fundraisers in California while Condoleezza Rice laughs along to Spamalot on Broadway. Then they blame everyone but themselves, set up their own inquiry into their own criminal negligence, and shamelessly hand the rebuilding contracts to their friends at Halliburton.
THE same Republican donors given the contracts to rebuild Iraq, after their naked greed flattened that land. New Orleans happens when leaders take the cult of individualism to extremes. When voters buy into the notion that all government needs to do is pay for a police and an army to protect wealth and property, then let those who are able, fill their boots. And to hell with those who are unable. It’s a philosophy they spread across the world in land-grabs like Operation Freedom. A freedom to covet even more of the planet’s riches. As though those riches are theirs by right. Because they’ve got the muscle to steal them.
I’m a socialist for selfish reasons. I want the world to be as peaceful, secure and happy as it can be, so mine and my kids’ lives are worth living. For that to happen, we all need to feel we have an equal right to peace, security and happiness. Because when people realise they haven’t, you get the grotesque anarchy we’re seeing in cities as far apart as New Orleans and Baghdad. Spot the link.
God bless George Bush’s America.
from Wikipedia
“The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, intensity, and duration. 4 These aspects combine to create secondary aspects including structure, texture and style. Other commonly included aspects include the spatial location or the movement in space of sounds, gesture, and dance. Silence is also often considered an aspect of music, if it is considered to exist.”
it IS something, but it’s NOT music.
Doesn’t say anything about a monotone rhythmic running of one’s mouth (usually in a profane, lowbrow way) over a monotonous rhythm track, usually produced by a machine.
If people dance to it then it is music.
What is truly pathetic and morbid is when thousands of people die during a natural disaster, and all liberals and racist morons like Kanye West can do is use the tragedy as an excuse to bash a President that they don’t like.
The real irony is that if local and state officials in LA (virtually all Democrats) had done their job, the loss of life would have been far less than it turned out to be. Gov. Blanco is the dumbass that wouldn’t give Bush the authority to send in the military sooner, yet you won’t hear Kanye and his ilk admitting to that truth because she’s a Democrat. It’s hypocritical and pathetic, but then again, it’s what we’ve come to expect from those idiots anyway.