What's tomorrow? Oh, just a day you'll never forget, according to Apple. The company posted a not-so-subtle note on its Web site Monday that promised an "exciting announcement from iTunes" at 10am Eastern time Tuesday.
"Tomorrow is just another day," the note teased. "That you'll never forget."
The message was posted above four clocks displaying the announcement time in California, New York, London, and Tokyo.
What will Apple announce on Tuesday? Could we finally be getting cloud-based iTunes? Rumors about a cloud-based service from Apple have been making the rounds ever since Apple snapped up (and then shut down) music service Lala late last year.
An August update to Apple's iDisk program added the ability to stream music to the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, but Apple's annual September music event came and went without a cloud-based iTunes announcement; likely because Apple had not yet obtained the licenses required for such an undertaking. Has the company finally made those deals?
On Friday, Apple updated iTunes to 10.1 in preparation for the impending launch of iOS 4.2. The new version lets owners use AirPlay to instantly and wirelessly stream videos from iTunes to the all-new Apple TV and sync iTunes with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 4.2, while also adding stability and performance improvements.
Last week, Twitter announced that users of iTunes social network Ping could tap into their Twitter followers, and Apple also added Ping to the iTunes app for iPad.
UPDATE: Cloud-based services will have to wait. Apple on Tuesday announced that the Beatles collection is finally available on iTunes.