Friday, January 12, 2007 |
09:04 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Bandwagon
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Everybody noticed at the time, during the demo, that Steve was showing off the iPhone's iPod capabilities by playing—gasp—Beatles songs. All the live commentary trackers I was watching made the immediate leap: Beatles in the iTunes Store! At least, that's what we expected Steve to say next.
But he didn't. Still no Beatles in the Store.
It isn't often that sort of thing happens, is it? I mean, he's deeply embroiled in the necessary negotiations; and he knows that the audience is fully expecting and hoping for the Beatles announcement any day now. So this almost amounts to a bait-and-switch...
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