It's Showtime

Apple recently sent out special invitations indicating that they will be holding a special event on September 12 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater. This isn't unusual for Apple, as they have always been secretive with their product pipeline all the way up to launch, however, it has been exactly a year since the iPod Nano birth, and many people are getting impatient to see what Apple engineers have come up with next.

The special invitation didn't have many details, but it looks like Steve Jobs is in a Hollywood state of mind. Embedded in the invitation is an image of a collection of spotlights highlighting the Apple logo above the words, "It's Showtime."

Early guesses are an online movie store addition to iTunes, as well as a new iPod with a widescreen display to better view these movies. However, it's all too early too tell, but many rumors have surfaced in months past and you can get bet your 1st born that Apple isn't sitting around and doing nothing.

I don't usually like to speculate, however, given much of Apple's recent success by revolutionizing the music industry, you would think they want to do the same for Hollywood. Last year, Apple added TV shows to it's iTunes store, and even though Disney was the only partner at that time, the rest of the major media powerhouses had no choice but to partner and distribute their content after Apple boasted 1 million downloads after the first 3 weeks. Logically, movies are Apple's next step, and it will be interesting to see what happens next Tuesday.