It's that time of year again. The leaves are turning brown. The sun is setting noticeably earlier. Wasps are in a mean mood. And Apple is holding its annual music-themed product launch.We're focusing on the latter, blogging from the London simulcast of Apple's event – the real thing is happening in San Francisco.We'll keep you posted on the key music announcements tonight, so keep refreshing after 10am PDT / 6pm BST. We're expecting a new iPod touch and possibly a new iPod nano, some changes to iTunes – although possibly not the long-rumoured cloud locker version – a refresh for the Apple TV set-top box that may include iOS apps, and stats on all things iPhone and iPad.The liveblog starts at this point…This'll be pretty quickfire, so I'll stick to the key facts and stats as they relate to the music industry, although naturally nowadays that includes iPhone, apps and Apple's wider content business.CEO Steve Jobs kicks off by talking retail: Apple has 300 stores in 10 countries now, and is attracting more than one million visitors some days, in total.Apple has now shipped 120 million iOS devices – iPhones, iPod touches and iPads. It activates 230,000 new devices every [...]
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