Posted on 01/19/2010 9:28:57 PM PST by Cyropaedia
Another prediction that Apple's acquisition of streaming music service Lala will result in a cloud-based iTunes service was offered Tuesday, with a digital music executive suggesting purchased content will be available from any browser or Internet-connected device.
In a guest column on TechCrunch, Michael Robertson, a 12-year veteran of the digital music business, former CEO of MP3. com and current CEO of MP3tunes, said he believes Apple will not offer a subscription music service in the future. Instead, he said, the purchase of Lala will allow Apple to create an iTunes service that will make content accessible from anywhere.
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Ping.
And, for those of us who don’t understand the minutia of all this tech goobledygook... this means what in plain english?
It p*sses me off mightily that if I but a song on iTunes I am not able to reformat it to, say, MP3 to install on a non-Apple device. Yahoo/Amazon doesn’t do this so it can’t be a purely copyright issue.
What's hard about that?
In a nutshell, you will (hopefully) be able to access your music (iTunes) library from any computer with an internet connection and play your songs.
Important:Except for iTunes Plus songs, you can't convert iTunes Store purchases.
Ok, so, in MY generation, we would say “gnarly, Dude.”
Almost all iTunes songs are pretty much DRM free now.
I already have content available anywhere. I carry it with me on the iPhone.
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