Apple shows its music vision

by Stephen Shankland September 9, 2009 4:49 PM PDT Follow @stshank

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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