Later today Apple announces details on its iOS5 and Mac OSX Lion operating systems plus the iCloud service. Meanwhile the leaks (or hypotheses and pure guesses, if you’re cynical) continue to flow. Most observers expect Apple to improve the iPhone’s notification feature, with some suggesting that Twitter updates will be deeply integrated into the notifications system. Some are speculating that all Apple devices will be tied into a cloud-based technology so that your apps and settings can be synchronised no matter which device you’re on. And some Mac observers predict that the OSX Lion operating system may incorporate multiple elements familiar to us from the iPhone such as iBooks and auto-correct. But what about music? The New York Post has claimed that Apple will pay between USD $100-$150 million in advances to the four majors for licences on the music aspect of its iCloud service. All will be revealed later on as the revelations unfold at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, so keep an eye on the Music Ally blog and tomorrow’s Bulletin. While you wait, keep yourself entertained by listening to one excited geek’s hip hop paean to Steve Jobs’s famous “One More Thing”… Mashable Billboard One More Thing the rap
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