Apple shows its music vision

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is back on stage, but gaunt after his liver transplant.

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Apple loves the reflection effect in its graphics, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts had a real one for the Apple event.

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Members of the press jam into the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for the Apple event. A section for live bloggers was outfitted with power strips.

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs boasts that 54 billion songs have been processed by Apple's Genius music-recommendation system.

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Norah Jones performs two songs for the Apple iPod, iTunes, and iPhone news.

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[eltoro2827]

norah jones.....??? is that the best the can get?

[Philips]

Norah Jones is the best. Period.

[SeizeCTRL]

sorry, the cast of High School Musical was booked... but don't worry, you can still catch them on DVD ;)

Norah Jones is fantastic!

[Splashes]

Oh my. He does indeed look gaunt (less charitably, skin-and-bones). Here's hoping he fills out those clothes a bit more the next time he does a presentation.

But it was good to hear him address the health issue in his opening remarks, with humility (acknowledging the generosity of the donor) and with humor ("I'm vertical").

[stale_pancake]

What a lame show. Why eve cover such a lame show. Hey, are you guys going to cover the next press event where steve jobs takes off his shoes to show you he bought new socks?

[d4nowar]

Someone's jealous. And I bet his socks are argyle.

[Philips]

Well, they like to make a good show. They have money for it. Why not.

Tracking the event, checking the news, chatting with others about the announcements - kept me entertained for more than couple of hours.

[msjonker]

I have to agree that it was, in comparison to past shows, lame. But everyone covers it and no one says bad, because its Apple, so its gotta be awesome, right?

Please point out the earth shattering announcement from the show? New colors for the iPod? A camera in an iPod Touch? I bet every manufacturer wishes they could get this kind of attention when they make these mundane changes to their devices. I guess someone has to do business in the real world...

[smrterthnu]

Come on Steve...if you're not going to wear decent attire, can you at least wear some jeans that actually fit? You look like hobo from 1992.

[ckh1272]

@smrterthnu--Real classy. I didn't realize this was a site for fashion critics. Beware the glass house.

[ckh1272]

Real classy. I see you have made seven posts and they all seem to be the typical anti-apple rants. Nice to know that your a fashion critic as well. Be careful on that pedestal. You might get a nosebleed.

[slickuser]

Camera is no big deal. But the software is. Providing easy to use feature rich (uploading it
to youtube with one click etc on a not so smart device) software to enable
the hardware is hard and Apple has been successfully doing it.

Get it?

[esteven4]

We didn't get The Beatles, but her drummer seems to have taken some cues from Ringo, according to that photo.