I predict the iTunes Cloud will be a massive failure as most people will not want to be strictly tied to these music labels.
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Apple Still Needs Music Publishers' Agreement Before Launching Cloud-Based Streaming Service
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I predict the iTunes Cloud will be a massive failure as most people will not want to be strictly tied to these music labels.
I just don't get the big push for Cloud streaming with music, The iPhone, witch was founded on putting an iPod and phone with a PDA that comusmes data from a wireless provider that has been seeing data rising and in return has raised prices and now are moving to tired data plans is going to be OK with streaming music from a cloud!
Big bills for data comming soon if you use your iphone for what it was created for....music phone calls and web
20hrs of streaming music over a 30 day peroid is about 7.8gb of streaming data !
You hit the nail on the head. Streaming your own music that's not on your mobile device is cute, but who is really going to do that often and for extended periods of time considering the caps that are on most mobile data plans, the effect accessing mobile broadband has on mobile device battery life and the obvious fact that you're going to load your favorite stuff on your mobile device so what you leave off is likely stuff you don't listen to as much anyway?
I just don't get it. Unless it's a 100% free service and is just phase one in Apple's master plan to get the major media companies on board with a streaming subscription based service to allow users to access a giant library of media that they haven't already purchased for a monthly fee. If that's the ultimate goal here I get it. Baby steps with these media companies that are historically ten steps behind the times. If that's the ultimate goal it would amount to a boat load of recurring revenue and a service that clearly provides end users with value if it's priced right.
With that being said if the end game here is just letting users stream things they already bought to their mobile devices in a world where storage is getting larger, cheaper and physically smaller all the time and where mobile broadband is going from unlimited to capped because mobile broadband providers are struggling to keep up with more and more smartphones with Internet access let alone smartphones with Internet access that stream a bunch of media then I think this is bound to be a flop.
Think 10 years down the road. Then it makes sense.
Henry Ford once said "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said 'A faster horse.'"
Apple is preparing for 2021 with their cloud service. Yes, it is a baby step. No, it's not going to fail. It's a crucial part of Apple's future and they will make sure it succeeds.
10 years from now, devices that can stream audio and 3d video will be so cheap that not even Apple will be able to maintain their hardware margins any more. Battery life won't be an issue even at true 4G speeds. Wireless internet access will be fast and pervasive. We'll look back at 2011 and laugh when we remember the good old days when we actually downloaded and carried gigabytes of media around with us.
Apple needs to start changing their business model from "software sells hardware" to "software sells services." Immediately. It will take time. Heterogeneous interoperability with internet connectivity (now called "the cloud" by marketing droids) is one of the first steps in that massive business model migration.
Just think of the big picture. Apple wants to do more than just build iPods that stream. They want to be involved in as much of the recorded entertainment industry as they can. Music, movies, TV, with Apple software at the bottom (server farms), middle (iTunes) and top (iOS, Mac OS). On pocket-sized devices, pads, laptops, desktop computers, and yes, HDTV in your living room. Apple TV is still just a hobby. 10 years from now it will be Apple's main revenue source.
Henry Ford once said "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said 'A faster horse.'"
Apple is preparing for 2021 with their cloud service. Yes, it is a baby step. No, it's not going to fail. It's a crucial part of Apple's future and they will make sure it succeeds.
10 years from now, devices that can stream audio and 3d video will be so cheap that not even Apple will be able to maintain their hardware margins any more. Battery life won't be an issue even at true 4G speeds. Wireless internet access will be fast and pervasive. We'll look back at 2011 and laugh when we remember the good old days when we actually downloaded and carried gigabytes of media around with us.
Apple needs to start changing their business model from "software sells hardware" to "software sells services." Immediately. It will take time. Heterogeneous interoperability with internet connectivity (now called "the cloud" by marketing droids) is one of the first steps in that massive business model migration.
Just think of the big picture. Apple wants to do more than just build iPods that stream. They want to be involved in as much of the recorded entertainment industry as they can. Music, movies, TV, with Apple software at the bottom (server farms), middle (iTunes) and top (iOS, Mac OS). On pocket-sized devices, pads, laptops, desktop computers, and yes, HDTV in your living room. Apple TV is still just a hobby. 10 years from now it will be Apple's main revenue source.
Who cares about 10 years from now. All that matters *now* is Apple got into bed with the big music labels and it stinks.
Yeah a future where corporate servers hold all of your data, what a great future that'd be.
They're called digital lockers. Fully encrypted and beyond the reach of any intrusive officials.
I disagree, most of the people who are traveling most of the time and youngsters will love this.