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iCloud Free Trial, $25 Per Year, and Ads?
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I like the (rumored) price, but I’m assuming it does more than just let me “fit more” songs on my mobile devices; that’s nice, but not really a burning need for me! In principle I do like the idea of having ALL my music everywhere, but the songs I actually play seem to come from a much smaller set.
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I use both the Google Music Beta and the Amazon Cloud Player on my Captivate, and they both work quite well. I'm interested to see Apple's take on this type of service.
If this includes all of the existing MobileMe features, than this is really awesome! If it's only for music, than it's pretty lame. I sure hope it's the former.
Let's say MobileMe subscribers get this service for free until it's time to renew...
I have 2 Apple ID's (one created in 2005 that has all my music purchases on) and the @me.com Apple ID that I have purchased nothing with.
Would that mean I can't use the "$25 per year paid service" (I know it's speculation) because my main Apple ID has no ties with MobileMe?
I have 2 Apple ID's (one created in 2005 that has all my music purchases on) and the @me.com Apple ID that I have purchased nothing with.
Would that mean I can't use the "$25 per year paid service" (I know it's speculation) because my main Apple ID has no ties with MobileMe?
Although cool sounding....i am still struggling with the real usefullness of the icloud. Whats the point of storing your music on a remote server, if you cant ACCESS it? I mean your ipod or laptop may have wifi....but you wont ALWAYS be near a wifi signal when out and about with your device. So what do you do then? If you store your music on your ipod or laptop....what exactly is the pointof the cloud then? Lol.
But what do i know? I pay apple $99 a year for a mobile me account.
But what do i know? I pay apple $99 a year for a mobile me account.
Again, the issue of whether or not you purchased that music comes up. RIAA and labels won't want a licensed service stream pirated tracks.
If Apple hadn't gone the route of iTunes before the store and promoting the ripping of CDs then yes, I could easily see that Apple would go that route if they could do it over again.
Yeah I'm going to trust a Cult of Mac article over common sense. There is no chance in hell the recording industry will ever permit pirated content on any legally licensed music service. And nor should they.
The LA Times story is not accurate.
They've got it all backwards.
"The agreements, finalized this week, call for Apple to share 30% of any revenue from iCloud's music service with record labels, as well as 12% with music publishers holding the songwriting rights. Apple is expected to keep the remaining 58%, said people knowledgeable with the terms."
HAHA. Apple keeps 58% "says people knowledgeable with the terms."
I would disregard the whole article. They don't know what they're talking about.
They've got it all backwards.
"The agreements, finalized this week, call for Apple to share 30% of any revenue from iCloud's music service with record labels, as well as 12% with music publishers holding the songwriting rights. Apple is expected to keep the remaining 58%, said people knowledgeable with the terms."
HAHA. Apple keeps 58% "says people knowledgeable with the terms."
I would disregard the whole article. They don't know what they're talking about.
Same here. I'm not really concerned since I always have my iPhone/iPod with me. Plus if I'm dying to listen to music, then I'd just use grooveshark.
I guess its not bad for the price
The cloud idea is dumb
Sorry, but paying rent to use someone's harddrive to store music sounds pretty silly to me. Just buy a ipod classic and you'll be able to carry 120GB of music around you, much bigger and cheaper then any cloud service could give you.
Sorry, but paying rent to use someone's harddrive to store music sounds pretty silly to me. Just buy a ipod classic and you'll be able to carry 120GB of music around you, much bigger and cheaper then any cloud service could give you.
Than why can't anyone purchase Mobile Me from Apple right now. Try to buy it. you can't.
So how does this service compete with what Amazon/Google are providing?
I would find this service more compelling if it enabled streaming of shows bought off iTunes on day 1.
I hope this isn't screwing up MobileMe, because I value that service more then what I am hearing thus far...
If Ping felt lonely, it is going to have a neighbor very soon. this iCloud service is just going to be as useless if only iTunes store music is allowed.
If it supports every purchase you made in the iTunes Store from day 1 that's huge.
This competes with Amazon more than Google as it'll be what you bought stored and streamed.
As long as the 'iDisk" or Dropbox-like feature, will be free then i couldn't care less about iTunes streaming for now.
That was the whole point of Apple signing the deals with the labels is that this was a way for them to get some compensation from those who have pirated music. Give them a place to store it and the $$ made off of the subscription fees would go to the labels (who are getting diddly right now).