iTunes 7.3 released: pre-req for your iPhone

Yeah, yeah, we know. iTunes 7.3 is now out and a required download if you plan on activating your brand new iPhone. Of course, you could just prop up the box in a corner, light some candles, and place a few oranges nearby. But that's us and we're afraid of robots.

[Jonathan Keim @ Jun 29th 2007 10:40AM]

That was a funny article. Looking forward to reading more articles from you Thomas :-)

[hempey @ Jun 29th 2007 10:50AM]

I concur.
Delicately put, Ricker.

[surfwax95 @ Jun 29th 2007 10:46AM]

We all are, Thomas, we all are.

[LeeVal @ Jun 29th 2007 11:20AM]

The download is 47mb, has iTunes ever been that big?

[Nando @ Jun 29th 2007 10:52AM]

Fo' reals?

Let the iPoon invasion begin!

[Michael @ Jun 29th 2007 11:04AM]

Other cool things with the update:

1) AppleTV Pictures Streaming
2) iPhone Ringtones

http://digg.com/apple/New_iTunes_7_3_ability_to_make_your_own_ringtones_PIC

[PPC @ Jun 29th 2007 12:00PM]

iDontcare

[Darnell @ Jun 29th 2007 12:14PM]

iThinkUdo.

[Jason @ Jun 29th 2007 12:16PM]

iDiotic post.

Obviously this isn't aimed at you, yet you took the time to respond. WTGF.

It will be interesting to see if there's that many people flooding the servers later. Personally, I don't think this launch is going to be as big as the hype.

[Jon @ Jun 29th 2007 12:11PM]

So everybody sitting in line wont be getting the update now cause, well... they're sitting in line.

About 30 minutes after 6pm, the iTunes server is going to be swamped.

My fingers are crossed for a crash.

[slug @ Jun 29th 2007 12:28PM]

ahhh its all weird! my 'sort artist' has gone gobbldy gook!!
The artists with numbers are now at the bottom of the alphabet! :s

[crazyreaper @ Jun 29th 2007 3:12PM]

WHAT ON EARTH, HOW ANNOYING

they have changed the Digit order, when you sort column be accending, so all those people who had there music sorted by Artist with bands like +44, 65 Days of Static and 30 seconds to Mars ect... will now find that in that mode they are liseted at the bottom after your XY and Z's (if you have any) Thats just annoying, why the change? must be somthing relating to column ordering for the iphone contacts ect. what a funny change to make.

Matt

[crazyreaper @ Jun 30th 2007 1:55PM]

and bands like 'A Perfect Circle' who use to fall under 'A' now fall under 'P' seriously why have the changed all the crap well annoying, Apple!

[t-bone @ Jun 29th 2007 4:54PM]

It was definitely bigger than 7.2. I'd say by about 10MB. It was weird having iTunes ask me to shutdown Outlook but it was nice that it didn't demand that I shut it down. It just said,"Ok, I'll keep going and just make the changes when you do shut it down." That was really thoughtful of Apple.

[fontendet24 @ Jun 29th 2007 5:08PM]

You do not needed any expensive contracts for iphone!

SOON will be a little program that can unlock and turn on your new shiny iphone from Apple store.

HACK iphone! NEW CONTEST!
Grab iphone for $499, insert your sim-card and you're FREE!

UNLOCK iPhone!

[t-bone @ Jun 29th 2007 5:19PM]

And the next day after you unlock your iPhone, Apple pushes out an update. You plug your iPhone in and suddenly your iPhone is locked again. Wouldn't that be hilarious?

[Jake Weierman @ Jun 30th 2007 12:58PM]

itunes won't open now that i've updated to 7.3. I had to trash it and re-install 7.2. Anyone else have this problem?

[morrowsnow16 @ Jul 9th 2007 9:26PM]

itunes is now fat and slow. After all these years, I'm toying with WMP... and i don't want to!

[Jeremy @ Aug 6th 2007 9:53PM]

I'm using the newest itunes for my ipod nano and I want to order my artists with numbers before the alphabet, so "10 years" and "36 crazyfists" before "Alelle", can I do that?? I have messed with the sort stuff, but nothing works. The older version of itunes did it automatically, and I know about the sorting options now, but those arent even working.