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18 May 2011 22:59

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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
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10 May 2011 10:57

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Tech: Google’s cloud music service launches — without label support

  • We’ve been in negotiations with the industry for a different set of features, with mixed results. [But] a couple of major labels were less focused on innovation and more on demanding unreasonable and unsustainable business terms.
  • Google director of content partnerships Zahavah Levine • Speaking a sentence obvious to anyone who has watched the music industry do its thing over the past decade. Which is why the company chose to launch the service (called Music Beta by Google) first, and wait until later to get the content partnerships. While the service reportedly has much in common with Amazon’s cloud music offering, it reportedly was more robust in the form it tried to sell the music industry on. Maybe we’ll see that someday. source
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