A better view of Apple's launch of iTunes 9, revamped iPods, and iPhone OS 3.1--and Steve Jobs back at the helm of the company.
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Apple loves the reflection effect in its graphics, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts had a real one for the Apple event.
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Members of the press jam into the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for the Apple event. A section for live bloggers was outfitted with power strips.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs boasts that 54 billion songs have been processed by Apple's Genius music-recommendation system.
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Norah Jones performs two songs for the Apple iPod, iTunes, and iPhone news.
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