Tech: Cloud music horse race: Apple’s about to pull ahead quickly
- Amazon Launched their cloud service first — without any deals with the major record labels. So while you could upload your music, you can’t stream the labels’ tunes.
- Google Launched their cloud service a little while after Amazon — with an interface that looks nearly the same. They weren’t able to cull deals out of the labels, either.
- Apple They’ll be late to the game, but they have two of the four majors on board, with the other two close to signing. Apple bought the lamented Lala in late 2009. source