In a guest-post on TechCrunch, MP3.com founder and MP3tunes CEO, Michael Robertson cites a “wide variety of insider sources” when saying Apple will NOT offer subscription services any time soon, but rather leverage their recent acquisition of Lala to take iTunes to the cloud:
An upcoming major revision of iTunes will copy each user’s [...]
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The Wall Street Journal is weighing in on Apple’s purchase of online streaming music service, Lala, saying Apple is using it to explore taking iTunes to the cloud:
Lala.com lets users buy and listen to music through a Web browser, meaning its customers can access purchases from anywhere, as long as they are connected [...]
Apple snapped up online music streaming start-up Lala, and now attention has turned from the what to the why, with three areas of focus: the streaming itself, the talent behind it, and/or the bundled pay model that financed it. For those catching up, Lala scans a user’s hard drive for music, then allows them to [...]
UPDATE: The New York Times says Apple is, in fact, buying Lala:
This person said Apple would primarily be buying Lala’s engineers, including its energetic co-founder Bill Nguyen, and their experience with cloud-based music services. Lala’s engineers have built a service that music enthusiasts say is very easy to use. Lala [...]
Streaming music has gotten pretty popular among iPhone owners and today we’d like to introduce you to one more option, Lala.
Lala gives you the ability to listen to any song for free one time. If you happen to like the song you pay $0.10 for unlimited listening. And at $0.10 per “Web Song” you [...]
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