Today is just another day I will forget

You missed the fact that the "Tomorrow is just another day" was a Beatles lyric reference. Don't take it so literally. It fit the "we have an announcement tomorrow" vibe they were going for. Obviously they had to turn it around, otherwise they'd just have the first part.

Cry me a river. Apple makes an announcement Monday late afternoon (that's when i saw it, maybe it was earlier) about some info they are going to release 12 hours later. TUAW and tons of other sites start speculating and then are let down by their own speculation?

Apple didn't hype it.

Beatles on iTunes is a Jobs pet project I would wager. It's a big deal, look at how it's dominating the charts on iTunes right now.

The Beatles are awesome and now it will be easier for a whole generation of new fans to get their music, although many of them will probably get songs and not the albums which is sad to an old fogey like me.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Spot on the money Auntie. I certainly didn't feel the earth shake and besides, when you're on the magical mystery tour who knows where you got on!? Big news for Apple but not Beatles fans. Best wishes, your favorite nephew.

It is pretty significant in terms of a music services wanting to take over the #1 retail spot to sell the Beatles catalog. They are the most prolific musical act of the past 100 years. Not having them was an asterisk when labeling iTunes as a music retailer. Now it has been dropped.

See the big picture.

Michael Grothaus, you should aspire to write better opinion pieces than this.

what a dumb announcement. Yay! I could now buy music I already purchased from other sources. I hear this digital download thingy is getting pretty big, good thing we got the Beatles. I understand a special day, but there is no reason for a press conference, this is the kind of crap that will get the media and myself to pay less attention to future releases from Apple. Gone now are the days of hitting refresh on the browser to see what happens.

Couldn't disagree more. I'm thrilled that the Beatles are on iTunes and I'm sure that Apple will do a great job of introducing them to younger generations. EMI was slow to get with the program, but that's no fault of Apple's. Let's give them a chance and see what they come up with…

I don't know if writers just have to fill space in this 24/7 news cycle, or if we have just gotten very jaded as a society, but I just don't see why some people seem to be not only disappointed in today's announcement, but some seem downright upset by it.

The Beatles were big. Unless you lived during those times, you don't realize what an impact they had on society. I admit, I don't understand the effect Frank Sinatra had on my father's generation, but I've never discounted, or looked down upon anyone for liking it.

If you like the Beatles, this is great news, even if you own all their material. I think one could appreciate that now, a new generation can experience the music that changed the world. I don't know why anyone would be against that, unless you just see the world with a negative view to begin with.

If you don't like the Beatles, or somehow felt let down that the announcement didn't include the things you wanted, then that's life, stuff happens. The world doesn't involve around what you want.

As far as the charts, go back to the Billboard charts of the sixties, and you'll see the Beatles dominated them. To be even discussing them over forty years later is a testament to their influence.

They do however have three albums in the top 10. Where are Katy Perry's and the Black Eyed Peas albums sitting at? Oh that's right they can't sell a whole album to an iTunes user just singles.

People who post on this site may know a lot about Apple, but they don't seem to know very much about music or the Beatles. The Beatles albums were only digitally remastered last year, so anyone who claims to have ripped the Beatles albums years ago and is fine with the sound quality is missing out. And the Beatles are a big deal to all musicians and anyone who loves music, not just "baby boomers." This is a big deal and as a musician and a music fan, I'm very excited.

Well I won't buy any of it in compressed format.

It was very nice of Apple to post that 480i copy of the concert for me to grab a copy of off the web page though :)