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Apple made a lot of small announcements at WWDC yesterday, but one has the potential to quietly change an industry.
iTunes Match will scan users' iTunes libraries, then find matches in the songs that Apple has for sale in the iTunes Store. Then, it will let users download those songs to any iOS device or computer running iTunes. The price is $25 per year.
For songs that iTunes can't recognize, users can still upload them to their personal iCloud service, which is free up to 5GB. Then they can get the files directly from iCloud to their other devices.
The key point: it doesn't matter where the song originally came from.
...
As CEO Jeff Price of Tunecore points out, Apple is paying royalties to record labels and publishers to cover this user behavior.
Amazon and Google introduced music lockers -- a similar concept, but they require users to upload every song manually -- but they're not paying the industry a dime.
In other words, Apple just built the service that lets the record industry FINALLY make money from pirated music.
This is something the record industry should have done itself 10 years ago when Napster emerged, instead of suing its customers to try and stop them from sharing music, it should have figured out how to make money off them.
It took Apple to show the labels that digital music downloads could be a good business. Now, it's going to take Apple to show them how to make money from digital files that users never paid for.
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-finally-showed-the-labels-how-to-make-money-from-stolen-content-2011-6?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=SAI%20Select&utm_campaign=SAI_Select_060811
Showing posts with label cloud computing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cloud computing. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Apple’s Free iCloud; Cloud Docs, iTunes In The Cloud
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—Synced on all devices: “Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy,” Jobs said. “We think this solution is our next big insight.” Apple will put the Mac and PC in a secondary role under the new iCloud service, connecting all of your devices (assuming they come from Apple, anyway) for file transfers and syncing. Files will be automatically uploaded to iCloud through a series of redesigned applications that have hooks into the online service, and Jobs promised it would work better than MobileMe, which he admitted was “not our finest hour.”
—It’s free: MobileMe and its much-maligned $99 a year fee are going away: iCloud will be free. Nine applications, including iTunes in the Cloud, will be available as part of iCloud, and 5GBs of storage will be provided for free. That may not sound like a lot, but Apple won’t count music, books, movies, or photos against that total. iTunes in the Cloud is going live today while developers are getting a preview of iCloud today. Consumers will see iCloud arrive with iOS 5 this fall.
—Like Google Docs: Apple also showed off a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Docs-like service that works with its Pages word-processing application, backing up a new document created on one Apple device and sending it to another. This will also work for Numbers and Keynote, Apple’s spreadsheet and presentation-creation software.
“A lot of us have been working for ten years to get rid of the file system,” Jobs said, explaining the new applications as ways to get around the complicated experience of managing one’s own files. Developers will have APIs (application programming interfaces) at their disposal for using the system within their own applications, he said.
—Photo Stream: Jobs said his favorite new iCloud-related announcement was something called Photo Stream, which is designed to move photos from the device on which they were taken and move them through the web to other devices. Photos imported into an iPhoto library on a Mac will also get synced to iOS devices. Apple TV will also get to play with Photo Stream.
In order to deal with storage concerns, Apple will store the last 1,000 photos on the iPhone or iPad, and it will store all your photos within the iCloud servers for 30 days. Since Macs and PCs have way more storage space than a phone or tablet, all photos synced through the Photo Stream service will stay there as long as you want.
http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-wwdc-2011-apples-jobs-introduces-icloud
—Synced on all devices: “Keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy,” Jobs said. “We think this solution is our next big insight.” Apple will put the Mac and PC in a secondary role under the new iCloud service, connecting all of your devices (assuming they come from Apple, anyway) for file transfers and syncing. Files will be automatically uploaded to iCloud through a series of redesigned applications that have hooks into the online service, and Jobs promised it would work better than MobileMe, which he admitted was “not our finest hour.”
—It’s free: MobileMe and its much-maligned $99 a year fee are going away: iCloud will be free. Nine applications, including iTunes in the Cloud, will be available as part of iCloud, and 5GBs of storage will be provided for free. That may not sound like a lot, but Apple won’t count music, books, movies, or photos against that total. iTunes in the Cloud is going live today while developers are getting a preview of iCloud today. Consumers will see iCloud arrive with iOS 5 this fall.
—Like Google Docs: Apple also showed off a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Docs-like service that works with its Pages word-processing application, backing up a new document created on one Apple device and sending it to another. This will also work for Numbers and Keynote, Apple’s spreadsheet and presentation-creation software.
“A lot of us have been working for ten years to get rid of the file system,” Jobs said, explaining the new applications as ways to get around the complicated experience of managing one’s own files. Developers will have APIs (application programming interfaces) at their disposal for using the system within their own applications, he said.
—Photo Stream: Jobs said his favorite new iCloud-related announcement was something called Photo Stream, which is designed to move photos from the device on which they were taken and move them through the web to other devices. Photos imported into an iPhoto library on a Mac will also get synced to iOS devices. Apple TV will also get to play with Photo Stream.
In order to deal with storage concerns, Apple will store the last 1,000 photos on the iPhone or iPad, and it will store all your photos within the iCloud servers for 30 days. Since Macs and PCs have way more storage space than a phone or tablet, all photos synced through the Photo Stream service will stay there as long as you want.
http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-wwdc-2011-apples-jobs-introduces-icloud
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
No privacy in Amazon cloud service
ZDnet 29.3.2011
Who couldn’t love the idea of the new Amazon Cloud Drive? You get at least 5GBs of free cloud-based storage, and its trivial to get 20GBs of free storage on Amazon Cloud Drive. Used in concert with the Amazon Cloud Player you get a fine cloud-based music player that can be used either from a Web browser or on Android tablets with the Amazon MP3 App. The new Amazon consumer cloud service also works well. It’s just too bad that you have to give up all privacy to use it.
Don’t believe me? Read the Amazon Cloud Drive Terms of Use for yourself. In particular, take a glance at: Section 5.2:
“5.2 Our Right to Access Your Files. You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement and protect the Service and its users from fraud or security threats; or as we determine is necessary to provide the Service or comply with applicable law”
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/no-privacy-on-amazon-8217s-cloud-drive/882?tag=nl.e539
Who couldn’t love the idea of the new Amazon Cloud Drive? You get at least 5GBs of free cloud-based storage, and its trivial to get 20GBs of free storage on Amazon Cloud Drive. Used in concert with the Amazon Cloud Player you get a fine cloud-based music player that can be used either from a Web browser or on Android tablets with the Amazon MP3 App. The new Amazon consumer cloud service also works well. It’s just too bad that you have to give up all privacy to use it.
Don’t believe me? Read the Amazon Cloud Drive Terms of Use for yourself. In particular, take a glance at: Section 5.2:
“5.2 Our Right to Access Your Files. You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement and protect the Service and its users from fraud or security threats; or as we determine is necessary to provide the Service or comply with applicable law”
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/no-privacy-on-amazon-8217s-cloud-drive/882?tag=nl.e539
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