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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Mike Piontek

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September 29 2007 at 8:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Patrick

I wish they would hurry up and support 64-bit windows.

September 28 2007 at 11:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jeff ammons

I am so glad I am bothered with update requests every fucking day so apple can keep raping at&t and it's customers with lockouts and such for people that want to use a different carrier. Thanks apple! You are weaning me off of iTunes! get 2 fucking versions of itunes allready so non iphone users aren't bombarded with this shit everyday!

September 28 2007 at 5:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike

Is that "screengrab" a photo of someone's display? Who does that?

September 28 2007 at 1:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rhywun

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Amen to that. This is getting downright ridiculous.

September 28 2007 at 1:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

El Payo

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.

September 28 2007 at 1:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tim

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.

September 28 2007 at 1:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Padriac

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?

September 28 2007 at 1:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

drew

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 :).

September 28 2007 at 12:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Luke

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?

September 28 2007 at 12:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply