Apple is probably the major driver in the computer industry and the music industry right now. In the early 1980s, it was Apple, not Microsoft who ushered in the Graphical User Interface (GUI) that we all take for granted now: Windows, Icons, Mice, etc. Microsoft still using text-based character-oriented UIs in all of its products when the Mac came out. When the first version of Windows came out several years later, you could not overlap windows. You could split the screen into various panes but real windows in Microsoft Windows? No way! And the software development tools? They cost around five hundred dollars! It was not until almost a decade later, in 1990, that Microsoft actually had something worth selling. Fast-forward to present. Apple's Macintosh's are based on open source software. While Microsoft claims this is an aberration, as is often the case - this is simply not true. In fact, one of the first big computers I used was the Honeywell Multics system. Multics came with the source code for all the software on the system. Everything. Compilers, OS kernel, print formatters, commands - all of it Apple, which entered the music scene three years ago, now dominates it. They have the most popular online music store and the most popular MP3 music/podcast player. Their new video iPod not only plays audio and shows color pictures - it plays movies, TV shows, and music videos. To fully accommodate this ability, Apple has started selling TV shows and music videos at their online store. Tomorrow, CEO Steve Jobs will introduce the first new Apple products of 2006. Speculation is rife that this will include some new kind of entertainment products or services. Apple is already selling TV shows online at their iTunes music store. So what will tomorrow bring? Hard to guess. One persistent guess that a lot of pundits and aficionados are making is television. Some are guessing a new way to get TV show or movies, while others are guessing TiVo-like features. I have no idea what they have. But I do know they are going to make that information available and some or most of what they have usually winds up being available immediately. I know I will check out the Apple web site tomorrow (Tuesday) sometime and see what is new. If you are into television, you might want to do it too. By the way, every Tuesday is new Free Music day at the iTunes music store. So be sure to launch iTunes tomorrow, go to the iTunes Store, and get your free song!