Here is what was said at the Steve-note at the “let’s Rock” special event in San Francisco that started at 10 AM PST.

iTunes stats:
8.5 million songs, 125 thousand podcasts, 30 thousand episodes of TV shows, 26 thousand Hollywood movies and 3 thousand applications for iPhone and iPod touch. The number one music retailer in the US in any format, ahead of Wal-Mart and Best Buy.

App Store – 100 million apps downloaded in 60 days! The wireless App Store is now available in 62 countries. About 700 games are available on the App Store. More than 3,000 applications are now available on the App Store, with over 90 percent priced at less than $10 and more than 600 offered for free.

Lots of new games coming for iPhone and iPod touch. Spore & Gameloft’s Real Soccer 2009 ship today. Need For Speed: Undercover coming in November.

Continue reading Jobs: “Let’s Rock” Event Coverage…

As usual the Apple Store is down before a major event that is expected to bring new product. The “let’s Rock” event is scheduled to start with Apple CEO Steve Jobs on stage at 1PM EST from San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. I will have the details posted ASAP.

Garmin’s RoadTrip (formally called Project Bobcat) which is a free download, allows you to transfer waypoints, tracks, and routes between your Mac and Garmin device and manage your data using your Garmin maps.

RoadTrip also provides users the ability to search for points of interest from the convenience of their Mac and then send the locations to your Garmin GPS. Perfect for nuvi owners.

MapManager copies maps and unlock codes into the right place to be accessible by RoadTrip and MapInstall. System Requirements is for Intel-based or PowerPC G3 or later Mac running OS 10.4 or later with 512 MB RAM an a USB port. Visit Garmin’s Mac page for more info.

Electronic Art’s Spore $9.99 is hidden in the iTunes App Store. Likely part of an announcement for tomorrow’s Steve-note. If you want it NOW go here.

Tomorrow’s “Let’s Rock” iPod related event will most likely be bringing us iTunes 8 and hopefully iPhone 2.1 update. The event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 10 AM PT. The banners were raised over the weekend. Maybe we can get more interest in new hardware, software and services than Steve Jobs weight this time around.

With no sign of iPhone 3G sales slowing they will be going on sale at Best Buy this Sunday September 7th. Sales numbers on the iPhone 3G have caused even Nokia to scale back its forecast to stockholders. iPhone 3G is now outselling the Blackberry Curve at AT&T. This is despite some iPhone glitches with 3G, dropped calls and crashing apps.

An uninspiring, unfunny, pointless, creepy ad starts Microsoft’s new $300 million ad campaign. This ad will attract who? Which demographic? Are we to believe that Seinfeld becomes friends with Bill Gates? I guess for the $10 million Microsoft is supposed to be paying him, even a guy that had a Mac in his apartment on his show all those years, he can be friends with a very rich nerd. I think John Hodgman plays a better Bill Gates type and is funnier than Seinfeld.

After all the years that Windows Mobile has been in existence Microsoft is about to follow Apple’s lead and open an “App Store” for Windows Mobile users.

Maybe they are realizing how many developers are working on iPhone apps now instead of Windows Mobile. One Windows Mobile magazine has even converted into an iPhone magazine. [via PCWorld]

For years I read “Google should create their own browser.” Well it seems they have. Based on Webkit instead of Gecko, Google’s Chrome will be available for Windows only at first with other platforms to follow.

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According to Ars Technica, Apple has sent out invitations to select media for a September 9th special event. The invitation features an iPod screen with the words “Let’s Rock” on it.

According to the invite, the event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 10 AM PT next Tuesday. New iPods? Revamped iPod touch? Stay tuned.