It's November 1st. Where The Hell Is iTunes Match?

Apple has seemingly missed its iTunes Match launch date after promising at its 'Let's Talk iPhone' event early last month that the new service would be up and running in the United States at the "end of October." Developers who have been testing the service in beta are discovering today that the iTunes 10.5.1 beta has now ended, with no replacement in sight.

iTunes Match originally became available to developers with a beta release of iTunes 10.5, but with its launch date delayed, the service was taken out of the public release and put into another beta, iTunes 10.5.1.

Now that we have entered November, iTunes Match has missed its expected release, and Apple is yet to comment on the delay. However, it is expected to launch imminently, according to reports, with Apple retail staff having already been prepared for the cloud-based music matching service. Many developers, in fact, expect iTunes Match to officially launched today.

The Cupertino company company has also performed a number of wipes for users' iTunes Match libraries, with the most recent taking place last Wednesday, in preparation for its public debut. But for developers who have continued to use the service, they may now be stuck without a working copy of iTunes.

The iTunes 10.5.1 beta ended today, and Apple is yet to issue an update, which will mean that those with this version of iTunes will be unable to open the application today.

[via MacRumors]