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iTunes Wi-Fi Store Now iTunes Store, Works Over 3G

Submitted by Edward Kirk on January 6, 2009 - 2:44pm.
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Among the announcements today at Apple's Macworld Keynote Address, Apple confirmed circulating rumors that the iTunes Wi-Fi store on the iPhone and iPhone 3G would gain the ability to download media over the 3G network. Earlier this morning Phil Schiller, Apple's VP of Worldwide Marketing, announced that they would be dropping the "Wi-Fi" from it's name, officially making it just the iTunes Store on the iPhone. With this new change, users will be able to download music anywhere without the need for a Wi-Fi hotspot.

Submitted by thelarster on January 6, 2009 - 3:46pm.
This is pretty sweet, now if they would only put 3G in mid-Michigan I'd be golden!

Submitted by foamysking on January 6, 2009 - 4:34pm.
or maybe but 3g between chicago and denver most of the mid west is screwed for 3g but we still gotta pay for it

IT WORKS!!!

Submitted by luqven on January 6, 2009 - 4:59pm.
No update required, simply try now, you can download any song you want!!!

It should have worked this way all along

Submitted by BZATWORK on January 6, 2009 - 7:15pm.
Uh - I feel a little like a guy stranded on a deserted island for years who gets his first box of crackers: "ooooo....that's the best cracker I've ever had in my entire life. . . . mmmmmm... .what are those? Ritz?"*

Ooooo....3g downloads on itunes instead of wifi? That's the best idea to come to the iphone since "cut and paste" functionality . . . . errr. . .wait, not yet.

One word for today's Keynote: Next.

I've had more excitement opening a Cracker Jack prize envelope.

You say that MobileMe now has documents on the web? Be still my beating heart. That's almost as revolutionary as Google Documents - except I get to pay for the honor of using MobileMe.

iLife '09? Blah blah blah blah blah. I should get this update (and that's all it really is) for free or at least at a sizable discount since I bought iLife '08.

New MacBook? That's what I'm talking about! Keep the hardware updates coming, baby! Me like!

So, in sum: give me more hardware and leave the software updates/expansions/garbage as a footnote.

I just hope they stay consistent and charge ipod touch users twice as much as they charge the iphone users to get the updates! Take THAT ipod fools!

(*Thank you, Eddie Murphy)

Submitted by hauntedtrail13 on January 7, 2009 - 11:13pm.
I was waiting for this one. So im glad that they decided to finally go for cell network. And it works on edge too. Its not just limited to 3g and wi-fi