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Breaking: Apple iPod Media Event Sept. 5

Posted by: Arik Hesseldahl on August 28

Word just in from Apple is that the company will hold a media event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on Sept 5. The headline on the invite sent to reporters like myself is: The Beat Goes on, and depicts an iPod user. This would go to confirm the rampant speculation that an iPod release is imminent.

Also, I for one can’t help but notice the mild resemblance in the “album art” in the foreground of the invitation to the Beatles album “Love.” Or is that just wishful thinking on my part? I have noticed that the Beatles’ solo work has been appearing with increasing regularity in the upper promotional band on the iTunes Store lately. I see Ringo Starr’s solo work has recently been added, and saw John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s solo work promoted next to each other, which to me can’t have been an accident. Could the launch of The Beatles on iTunes finally be upon us?

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Reader Comments

sp

August 28, 2007 06:44 PM

Called Moscone center. They were not able to immediatly confirm this. Website shows there is a scheduled private corporate event Sept 4-5.

chris

August 28, 2007 09:52 PM

Beatles. Yes. Check out the cover art just to the left of the center cover. Beastie Boys...what comes after B-E-A-S? Yes the BEATLES are coming...

jm

August 30, 2007 12:07 PM

Any notice of an additional play on words... the beat"les" go on?

kyle

August 31, 2007 10:20 AM

also the next cd in the coverflow bears a striking similarity to the interior art of yellow submarine. not exact, but a similar 60s style bright colors graphic shapes.

John

September 1, 2007 02:48 PM

It's not a beatles album. it's a Beastiboys CD

Michael

September 1, 2007 04:10 PM

The Beatles are coming an I'll explain why...

The final press release of the Beatles goes as follows...

When the spinning stops -- that'll be the time to worry, not before. Until then, the Beatles are alive and well and the beat goes on, the beat goes on.

That plus the appearance of the LOVE Album Artwork convinces me!

Max

September 2, 2007 10:34 PM

In early iPhone ads the time on the phone was set to 9:41.
9/ 4+1= september 5th!
Later on it was changed to 9.42, so I wonder what a heck is happening on thursday?


jimmy579

September 5, 2007 11:53 AM

the store is "busy" not long to they unveil the new ipods! woop woop

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