-•Upgrades all your songs to 256Kb, if they’re in the iTunes catalog (18 million songs)
=Bandwidth hog if streaming. No reason for it.
-•Keeps libraries synched among 10 devices (Mac, Windows PC, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad)
One of the worst parts about Apple products/iTunes gets even worse. Yeah for MORE synching.
-•Holds 25,000 songs, not counting iTunes purchases. Amazon holds 5GB — less than I can keep on the phone, hence not terribly useful to me. An equivalent number of tracks, 100GB, costs $100/yr. from Amazon.
Ummm, I’ve got 20GB w/Amazon and it didn’t cost me a dime and you’re Amazon purchases don’t count against the cap. And unless you work around Wifi 24/7 (and most people don’t)having all that storage capacity is pointless if you can only access a small bit at a time. (You aren’t going to be streaming many 256kb songs over your 3G iPhone with a whole lot of success).
Never fails, every single move Apple makes gets to made out to be some earth-shattering development.
“We’ll see what changes Amazon and Google have to make to their cloud plans when the RIAA gets through with them.”
LOL, if the RIAA what’s to alienate the #1 market of smartphones there is, they do so at their own peril.
Nah. No reason at all. Crappy sound quality was good enough for my Diamond Rio in 1996.
It's not streaming. It's every song you own, downloadable to any Apple device or Windows PC you have.
>>>-•Keeps libraries synched among 10 devices (Mac, Windows PC, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad)
One of the worst parts about Apple products/iTunes gets even worse. Yeah for MORE synching.
Yeah, I like having different parts of my music library in as many different places as possible. I hate it when I think of a song I haven't heard of in a while, and it's right there. I'd much rather check my Amazon Cloud drive, my Dropbox, my desktop and my laptop.
Ummm, I’ve got 20GB w/Amazon and it didn’t cost me a dime and you’re Amazon purchases don’t count against the cap.
Cool. You've got room for 1/5 as many tracks as iCloud, and once the introductory deal expires, you'll get to pay $20 for that space next year.
And unless you work around Wifi 24/7 (and most people don’t)having all that storage capacity is pointless if you can only access a small bit at a time. (You aren’t going to be streaming many 256kb songs over your 3G iPhone with a whole lot of success).
If I want to stream music, I'll fire up Pandora. I don't get the appeal of burning bandwidth every single time I want to listen to a song that I've already paid for.
Never fails, every single move Apple makes gets to made out to be some earth-shattering development.
Never fails, Apple-bashers don't get (or pretend not to get) that Apple has done something really new. The iPod? "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
“We’ll see what changes Amazon and Google have to make to their cloud plans when the RIAA gets through with them.”
LOL, if the RIAA what’s to alienate the #1 market of smartphones there is, they do so at their own peril.
The RIAA isn't in business to be liked. If Amazon and Google (and I'm not clear on which of those constitutes "the #1 market of smartphones there is") are distributing music without paying royalties, they aren't going to play nice.
Google is streaming my 320kb files just fine. I guess AT&T’s network might cause problems.