The Beatles!? I want my Verizon iPhone, iPad 2 and iOS 4.2 Already
The Beatles are finally on iTunes. I’ll spare you the whole saga between Apple, Apple Records and the Beatles since the story is long and pretty boring actually. Anyone who wanted the Beatles on their iPod already put them on it themselves years ago. What I want to know is where the heck my Verizon iPhone is. Oh and I want my iPad 2 already. Which for some reason reminds me that iOS 4.2 is still not out…
The Verizon iPhone rumors are still going quite strong and still pointing to an early 2011 launch. For some reason, the blogosphere has started churning out some nonsense about a white, Verizon iPhone coming out at the same time as iOS 4.2. It’s like the game we all played when we were kids in summer camp and had to whisper a phrase into the ear of the person next to us and so on. Eventually the phrase would get so jumbled everyone would laugh when it was revealed what the phrase was really supposed to be. Imagine that on a global scale with bloggers who don’t check facts.
Then we have the iPad 2. No one really knows when this thing is going to come out, but the usual Taiwanese manufacturing sources all point to early 2011. Research In Motion (RIM) has put a video online of a pre-release version of its coming PlayBook tablet head to head against the current iPad and yes, the PlayBook is faster at rendering websites. A bunch of other manufacturers are jumping into the tablet game with Android and hoping to grab some holiday season sales of their own. Apple needs to hurry up and launch this because I want FaceTime on my iPad and if the iPad 2 gets delayed anything like the white iPhone 4 has, I just might get a PlayBook.
Finally we come back to iOS 4.2. Sure, Apple said it would launch in November. The month is more than halfway over now. The release is huge and finally brings AirPlay, AirPrint and multitasking to the iPad. It also fixes the huge security bug on iPhones running version 4.1 of iOS.
Long story short, Apple we don’t care about the Beatles, we care iOS 4.2, our precious Verizon iPhone and an iPad with FaceTime. That’s it.
Now that the obligatory Apple rant is done, let me know what your favorite Beatles song is in the comments!
Oh and one last thing! Any diehard Apple fan out there that can name the system sound on Mac OS 7.x that is a reference to Apple Records?
Tags: iOS 4.2, verizon iphone, Apple iPad 2, Apple, apple itunes
Sosumi
Hey Jude
My wife wants an iPad for Christmas. I am hoping the Facetime capable iPad will be announced any day.
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Is the system 7 sound, “sosumi”?
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Free my Ipad NOW!
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LOL, damn they made it seem as if the 4.2 or something big was coming out. It’s just the Beatles! FML
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So sue me!
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cant buy me love? remix
I dont care too much for beatles, waiting for ipad 4.2
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Pfft. Who cares? This is big news? I have big news: Yaaaawn.
Hey. Here’s an idea! why don’t you release the operating system that won’t make me feel like I’m lying to my workmates when I say: “No, really – I can do pretty much anything on this” I’m Tired of fishing for files and trying to remember which application i was trying out when i took those meeting notes. Not nearly so enthusiastic.
And for everyone that thinks – that 4.2 is a “bonus” – yeah. Maybe. But i would have parked this next to my kindle a while back if I wasn’t promised that my tablet would soon have the the capabilities of…….a phone!
……………bored now.
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Who are the Beatles? I just want iOS 4.2 and LaLa merged into iTunes.
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Whatever this article said it is all true. Who cares about Beatles coming to iTunes? People already downloaded the Beatles long time ago. Steve Jobs should already announce the Verizon iPhone if he is planning to release it on January.
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The beatles is just a distraction. I knew it from the start.
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While my iPad gentle weeps.
The long and winding road.
Help.
They can’t work it out.
I’ll get by with a little help from iFriends.
Sargent peppers lonely iPad band.
Listen, do you want to know iSecrets?
….that should start u all off!!
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This is how I feel about it.
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Exactly! Apple is just teasing us with all this stuff.
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The Verizon iPhone might be the longest enduring non-marketing tease since Magnum opus.
When I’m Sixty-Four!
JMB – Towson, MD
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Love it I was thinking the same thing!
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I Totally AGREE Apple we don’t care about the Beatles, we care iOS 4.2!!!
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Come Together
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You are sooooo right.I want all the same things. but most of all, FOLDERS on my iPad
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I couldn’t agree more about not caring about the Beatles on iTunes. I’ve had select B songs transfer through several Pods for over 7+ years now. However, I know it’s wet-your-pants exciting to the Apple Exec old farts having finally gotten the whole mess sorted, so I guess we should say congrats for that. A Verizon iPhone WITH some Beatles songs on it would’ve been a real announcement.
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The system sound on Mac OS 7.x that is a reference to Apple Records is called ‘Sosumi’.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
Do we all win a Verizon iPhone, an iPad 2 and iOS 4.2 for getting this correct?
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