An excerpt from the email they sent to customers:
In appreciation of your support over the last five years, you will receive a credit in the amount of your Lala web song purchases for use on Apple's iTunes Store. If you purchased and downloaded mp3 songs from Lala, those songs will continue to play as part of your local music library.
Remaining wallet balances and unredeemed gift cards will be converted to iTunes Store credit (or can be refunded upon request). Gift cards can be redeemed on Lala until May 31st.
I enjoyed Lala, but OF COURSE Apple is going to be folding Lala features into iTunes! Do people really think they bought them just to stop a competitor? iTunes has something like 70% market share of digital music and something like 25% market share of ALL music, including physical media. What do you think Lala had? I doubt it affected iTunes more than half a percent!
In appreciation of your support over the last five years, you will receive a credit in the amount of your Lala web song purchases for use on Apple's iTunes Store. If you purchased and downloaded mp3 songs from Lala, those songs will continue to play as part of your local music library.
Remaining wallet balances and unredeemed gift cards will be converted to iTunes Store credit (or can be refunded upon request). Gift cards can be redeemed on Lala until May 31st.
I enjoyed Lala, but OF COURSE Apple is going to be folding Lala features into iTunes! Do people really think they bought them just to stop a competitor? iTunes has something like 70% market share of digital music and something like 25% market share of ALL music, including physical media. What do you think Lala had? I doubt it affected iTunes more than half a percent!