Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTunes, Apple, iPhone
New iTunes coming, with battery indicator for iPhone
What's this picture, sent to us by reader Mike, and found on Apple's website? Why, it's a screengrab from iTunes, with a nifty little battery icon right there next to the iPhone listing.Yes, but Mike, I hear you saying, what does that mean? It means, my friends, that a new iTunes update is right around the corner. 7.4.3 doesn't have this icon, and so it's very likely that within the next day or two, we'll see a brand new version of iTunes, complete with this nifty battery icon, and who knows what else.
Why Mike, I hear you saying again (I have great hearing), that's terrific! Could this, you say, have anything to do with the recent 1.1.1 iPhone update? Will this coming iTunes update affect, perhaps, my homemade ringtones, or my jailbroken iPhone?
To those questions, I don't have solid answers-- the update is probably due out fast, so we'll know soon. But I do, like many of you, have a Magic 8-Ball. I've consulted it, and in this case, it's telling me: "Outlook not so good."
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
iBetaphone said 11:07AM on 9-28-2007
If you go to iTunes Downloads, it says 7.4.3
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Johnny Thrash said 11:06AM on 9-28-2007
7.4.3 is available now. =)
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Jeff said 11:12AM on 9-28-2007
still has 7.4.2 for me on the itunes download page on apple.com. Where was this image spotted? i dont see it anywhere.
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Michael Schmitt said 11:15AM on 9-28-2007
"Outlook not so good"... is that a slam on Microsoft Office?
;)
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Dave said 11:19AM on 9-28-2007
Ah! I am so glad I don't have to worry about such things. Apple is being kinda rough.
P.S. I am not getting the update for 7.4.3. I'm still up-to-date with 7.4.2.
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Aaron D. said 11:24AM on 9-28-2007
7.4.3 is available from apple, but it is the windows version, i saw it last night on apple.com/support/downloads. It doesn't seem to show that same version for Mac, maybe that screenshot is from the new version for windows that launched last night?
hell.. i have no idea..
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Eric said 11:26AM on 9-28-2007
My computer at home showed an update window for this before I left this morning (6:15am EST).
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noza said 11:30AM on 9-28-2007
Oh, for the love of Steve, add HD movies already! I'm dyin' here! (literally, I think at this rate I will be in the old folks' home before it happens).
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j. Ruiz Isenberg said 12:48PM on 9-28-2007
will we perhaps be getting the wireless sync capability?
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Nathan said 11:38AM on 9-28-2007
it showed up for me this morning. (I'm on Windows.) the note said that it just fixed some stuff relating to the Touch so I didn't bother to upgrade.
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exus said 11:40AM on 9-28-2007
Great Page Thanks
http://www.aglocoinfo.org
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marcus said 11:50AM on 9-28-2007
more updates than windows. it seems every week when i open itunes, it asks me to update...
every week: windows, antivirus, spyware, and itunes updates required...
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rj17 said 12:01PM on 9-28-2007
is there a link to this picture?
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Spencer said 12:11PM on 9-28-2007
I'm getting sick of being nagged to download a hefty iTunes update every few days for a device I don't own and likely never will. Not to mention the 'ringtones' category that I have in my library now that will never be used. It's just beginning to get annoying for some of us who are not iPhone owners.
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Ron Green said 12:18PM on 9-28-2007
!.1.1 did bring a new battery indicator for the iphone bluetooth headset. It sits at the top of the screen next to the iphone battery indicator.
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Luke said 12:28PM on 9-28-2007
Gotta chime in here and add my vote for slowing down the ole iTunes updates - fer f*cksakes, with a Windows machine at work and a Mac at home it seems every time I sit down to either of them I get more bloody AppleNagWare... chill out! Especially as the Windows updater wants to reboot the system. Come on now, is that really necessary in this day and age?
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blinkcowz182 said 11:37PM on 9-30-2007
Yeah on Firefox in Mac OS it shows 7.4.2 but if I use user agent switcher and switch to IE 6 on Windows, I get 7.4.3. Interesting...still not updating my iPhone or iTunes though :).
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James said 1:24PM on 9-28-2007
Okay first it was complaints about too many iPhone articles.
Now: is every article about the iPhone going to be phrased in terms of hacking/unlocking? I know some of you think it's crazy but some of us just have normal, unhacked iPhones. Hackers: you're the vast minority. Is every iPhone article until the end of time going to be formatted as a report on whether some unofficial, unsupported program gets "broken" or not?
Is this the unnofficial apple weblog or the unnofficial hacking weblog?
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tim said 1:31PM on 9-28-2007
awesome! every time i plug my iphone in, i wish there was someway for it to display its charge. further proof that apple controls my thoughts.
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El Payo said 2:33PM on 9-28-2007
The Mac iTunes download page indicated 7.4.3 was available for download briefly yesterday, but the link was still to 7.4.2 - maybe they caught a last-minute bug/hole/cosmetic defect.
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