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Apple Inc said on Tuesday it would remove the copy protection for songs sold on the Internet and found your laptop thinner, 17 inches, but the absence of Steve Jobs and a product disappointed Wall Street .


Shares of Apple fell more than 1 percent, well behind the rise in the Nasdaq's 1.81 percent, reflecting frustration at the lack of news at the conference of marketing, previously submitted to the iPhone to the world .

"There were some innovative products, but no real success stories of sales," said Robert Francello, head of operations with shares of Apex Capital hedge fund. "People were initially optimistic, but now it is as if to make money on the table," he said.


Apple said its iTunes music store, which sold 6,000 million songs so far, will feature a club of 10 million songs free of digital rights and copy protection, towards the end of the quarter, for between 69 cents and 1.29 dollars song.

Copy protection software, also known as digital rights management (DRM by its Spanish acronym), has generated controversy among music fans and labels.


The songs will also be available for download to iPhones by air rather than through the computer.

The company decided not to use the Macworld to launch a major new product, as it did in the past when presented devices as crucial for the industry as the iPhone.


In years past, product launches at Macworld the company had generated so much expectation that could overshadow the events of the largest shows for the Consumer Electronics. The 2009 Electronics Show begins this week in Las Vegas.

Tuesday's event produced few surprises. Apple announced a 17-inch laptop for $ 2799 is the thinnest and lightest in the history of the company, as well as small renovations home movies and software for photographers.


The event ended with the singer Tony Bennett singing "The best is yet to come" and "I left my heart in San Francisco" in reference to Apple, which no longer attend the cultural event held annually by the followers of the Mac

Jobs, an icon in past events, was not in sight, despite some expectations that appear. Last month, the company said that its CEO and the seller would not do a special presentation at Macworld.


This created new concerns about the health of the surviving cancer and many observers said that Apple had no firm plans to launch a great product at Macworld.