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.
“>>>-•Keeps libraries synched among 10 devices (Mac, Windows PC, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) “
LOL, iTunes struggles enough even trying to find albums artwork for the stuff I already have. Now I’m supposed to expect them to “upgrade” all these songs that it can’t seem to identify to 256kb? Sure.
“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.”
Yeah, we’ll see, won’t we? And anyone that can’t seem to fit enough music in 20GB, which doesn’t even count stuff from Amazon, has serious issues. And no worries, I’m sure Google will be close by with their own, considering Google has already had seamless syncing between phone and PC’s for quite sometime now. It’s not a big feat to add music to the list.
“Never fails, Apple-bashers don’t get (or pretend not to get) that Apple has done something really new.”
Nope, sorry...maybe if iFans weren’t making utter fools of themselves every time Apple releases some incremental update to something as being godlike, you wouldn’t get the reaction that you get. I swear, IFans are on the same level as Obama worshipers sometimes.
“that Apple has done something really new” Statements like that are exactly what I’m talking about. Storing, streaming, and being able to download music from a cloud drive is NOT a new idea, but listening you iFans, you would think that a life-changing event just occurred.
“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.”
That would be Google, which now has 36.4% (and growing) of smartphones running its O/S. And don’t you worry about Google...I’m sure they can afford it.
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