Beatles Still Not Available On iTunes
At this point, does anyone really care that the Beatles aren’t available on iTunes? Hard to imagine there’s a living soul who doesn’t own the group’s music but would — if only they could buy it via Apple’s music store.
Still, today’s announcement that the Beatles’ Apple Records music label will be releasing some of its albums — by artists other than the Beatles — for digital download this fall only serves to remind us that you still can’t buy Abbey Road on iTunes.
When will you? I assume that at some point this summer, Apple (AAPL) will announce a press conference/product launch for early September, as the company often does. And then various outlets will insist that Steve Jobs must be planning a Beatles announcement at said event, as various outlets often do. Maybe this time they’ll be right.
Meantime, worth noting that the announcement from EMI doesn’t mention iTunes, or any other online retailer like Amazon (AMZN), by name. Does that mean the albums won’t actually be available on iTunes, after all? Unlikely. But something for Apple conspiracists to gnaw on until October, when the albums are supposed to be released
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