I’ve got 20GB on Amazon and it didn’t cost me anything. So what if it takes a little bit to upload?
That’s what a 50/50 connection is for.
And considering iTunes can’t even find the album art for half my music for some stupid reason, good luck with it actually matching the entire song.
May the better service win.
I love how people boil down over 200 new features, 1500 new apis for IOS5 and pinpoint one or 2 features with “I can already do that with X, whats the big deal”
The big deal is the overall improved experience and very tightly integrated new features that blow anything else out of the water.
Anyone can argue over a single similar feature and whether it is truly new or unique.
Android is the only thing even remotely approaching IOS in ease of use, intuitiveness (is that a word?) and smooth integration of all features. It is my opinion that Android (and others) still have quite a ways to go to provide a similar experience.
Even if your collection is low-quality 128 kb MP3 taken from a commercial CD, the iTunes-matched songs will be available back to you in 256 kb AAC from the master. No DRM either. Apple doesn't mind because it doesn't cost them anything in storage. Ten million users just point to the same song in iTunes, while Google will have to store ten million copies of that song.
The amazing thing here is the labels making the assumption that you paid for the music on your computer, while they usually operate on the assumption that you pirated everything. Apple paid some big $$$ for this to happen.