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iCloud Free Trial, $25 Per Year, and Ads?

MetalMoon said:
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.
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But then you have to carry one more device. I like having it all in just one device, personally.
 
ugahairydawgs said:
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).
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Or they're licensing deals that allow for the streaming of the music that was purchased through iTunes as that would require a royalty for each play. I imagine that it would require Apple to pay something similar to an Internet radio station.
 
diamond.g said:
How so? I thought it was removed (I can't seem to renew my service).
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New users sign up for a free trial. When it ends, they're charged (unless they cancel).

Existing users have the option to automatically renew their subscription (if their card details are stored with Apple) or let their subscription expire.
 
If this is true, why would this service cost money?1!?!?!?!?! Apple already has the songs on their servers. They already transmit 1:30 of it for free to sample. Where is the extra cost to them? Why do they need to charge? This doesn't make any sense.
 
Warbrain said:
Or they're licensing deals that allow for the streaming of the music that was purchased through iTunes as that would require a royalty for each play. I imagine that it would require Apple to pay something similar to an Internet radio station.
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That type of service doesn't really jive with the whole iCloud name.
 
Warbrain said:
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.
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So I guess we have to wait to see if Apple will allow uploading of personal songs (things not purchased through iTunes) because at the moment, Amazon supports that capability, plus the streaming of things purchased. Which would make it superior to iCloud (if we can't upload our non-iTunes content for streaming).
 
0229876 said:
For the same reason we can't purchase anything while the store is down for updating a new product (iPad...etc).

Ex. When the iPad came out I couldn't purchase a ipod case from the online store (it goes down during product releases), does that mean that iPad was a replacement for a ipod case?
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No. I'm not talking about Apple store being down. Im talking about Mobile Me has not been available to purchase on Apple website for the past several months.. Again, assuming Apple Store is up... go find where you can buy Mobile Me.. You can't.
 
AlligatorBloodz said:
If this is true, why would this service cost money?1!?!?!?!?! Apple already has the songs on their servers. They already transmit 1:30 of it for free to sample. Where is the extra cost to them? Why do they need to charge? This doesn't make any sense.
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Because of bandwith charges.

Macrumors is on fire today!
 
wd89 said:
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?
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I'm in the exact same boat as your situation, wondering the same thing.

Anxious to learn more.
 
i really dont care about all this cloud bs. Bummer thats where apples focus is and most likely will be for the foreseeable future. The last thing i want is to give my internet service provider control over my content. And believe me, thats what they will do if they're in the middle.

Me >CONTENT PROVIDER<My content. Not good.
 
MetalMoon said:
Sorry, but paying rent to use someone's harddrive to store music sounds pretty silly to me.
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You aren't even, since no hard drive space is actually being used. If it's only iTunes content, then Apple already have that stuff on their servers.

As presented so far, this is a service that will fit the needs of only a select few users, namely those people who only have iTunes music collections, and spend significant periods of time near WiFi[1].

Everyone else will either take a pass, or hit up Amazon/Google.


[1] Streaming over 3g is going to get heavy on the bandwidth usage for the kinds of people who'd actually have a use for this service.
 
So it cost $25.00 and on top of that there will be marketing also. Sound like Hulu + have fun fangirls.
 
iCloud is going to be a smash-hit. How do I know this? From the sheer amount of nerds already discounting it, before it's feature-set has formally been announced. :)
 
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Pandora RIP...
 
SevenInchScrew said:
But then you have to carry one more device. I like having it all in just one device, personally.
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For the price better to get the 32 gig and move one. Even at MP3 320 you still could have more music than you will listen in a week.

I wonder if this will hold back the release of a 64 Gig iphone. :confused:
 
aprilfools said:
No. I'm not talking about Apple store being down. Im talking about Mobile Me has not been available to purchase on Apple website for the past several months.. Again, assuming Apple Store is up... go find where you can buy Mobile Me.. You can't.
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Can't you just start a free 60-day trial, and then enter your credit card info into your account so that when the trial is up it bills you?

http://www.apple.com/mobileme/pricing/
 
ninjadex said:
iCloud is going to be a smash-hit. How do I know this? From the sheer amount of nerds already discounting it, before it's feature-set has formally been announced. :)
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No it will be a hit not because of the sane nerds but the insane fangirls. That is what will make it viable and nothing else.
 
Slightly off topic, but very relevant, could MR please stop using that music note on a cloud icon and start using the one revealed today? Don't know why, but that old icon annoys the hell outta me. Sorry. I'll shut up now.
 
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