But, they're only doing what you're exactly doing here; trolling around on a RUMORS site.
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But, they're only doing what you're exactly doing here; trolling around on a RUMORS site.
Weird that, after tens of rumours about the good thing, there's one bad rumour and people get pissed off.
Well I guess we will see what happens on Monday. Not sure the advantage of what is rumored here. I've used Amazon's locker--and it is free for purchases from Amazon--plus the free 5GB they give you for other stuff. So paying to store your own music seems a bit unappealing at face value so hopefully there is more to this.
I totally agree. I don't want Apple placing too much effort into the music side of this. I'd rather them finally nail integrated file sharing, calendar sharing, email, etc, etc. Sure, they have massive resources, and can of course work multiple streams, but all these rumors are still prioritizing the music.
Streaming is too network-dependent for my tastes anyway.
so the studios are double dipping? I purchase the music then they want more money after I purchased the music so I can have my music I purchased on the cloud? Why would apple even agree to pay them twice if they already get money from the songs purchased on itunes? Apple should have just done it without them like amazon and google did.
That's what I think. Apart from the requirement of permission from a record label, how would this different to just streaming podcasts? And why would they need the huge data centre if they already distribute as much music as they do currently?
Another thing, are any other iOS apps ad-supported? Would they even want that?
Steve Jobs has said last year wireless syncing will come in the future.
But there is another usage that is not very much commented on, moving the master for any iTunes library (and iOS device) from a single computer to the cloud. If you have both a desktop and a laptop and have your iOS device synced with the desktop and then travel with the laptop you cannot sync your iOS device while travelling. Moving the master to the cloud, you can sync your iOS from every computer (that has internet access).
In the same way you could sync two different iOS devices to two different iTunes libraries (eg, from two people in a household) without having to change user accounts.
Amazon is already doing this even for their S3 service. If you upload a media file to S3 that somebody else has already uploaded, Amazon simply links you to that file.
Since they introduced iAds last year, they'll probably look for other potential applications. This may be one of them...
This is the worst idea I've ever heard of.
Oh wait, I don't know what the service actually is. LOL
Honestly though, I hope Apple fails at whatever they're trying to do with this. I like Apple hardware and hope any other venture, particularly any venture that has to do with serving up ads fails in a pingfully spectacular way.
Oh wait, I don't know what the service actually is. LOL
Honestly though, I hope Apple fails at whatever they're trying to do with this. I like Apple hardware and hope any other venture, particularly any venture that has to do with serving up ads fails in a pingfully spectacular way.
That's a good point as that's the same as me.
I once tried to change my Apple ID to my @me.com email address and iTunes Tech Support said that wasn't possible.
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You don't buy their iTunes products now, so I don't really think you're in Apple's target market for cloud-based storage for them.
If you call them (apple), they can actually merge your various accounts into one main account, or so I've heard.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; nb-no) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)
I tried that to! Annoying really, as my AID adress has been long gone for years..
I tried that to! Annoying really, as my AID adress has been long gone for years..
Actually, you can. http://www.apple.com/mobileme/ Sign up for the free trial, after 60 days you will get billed. This has been the purchasing procedure for months.
I suppose I'm of the opinion that ANY Service the media companies like and sign up to HAS to be bad for the consumer.
That's just the way of the world.
Good for Big Business = Bad for the man in the street.
We all want more freedom, options, better pricing, more openness and all these things are the opposite of what the major companies want.
So if Apple has done deals and they are happy, whatever it is, it's probably bad. that's what I fear anyway.
That's just the way of the world.
Good for Big Business = Bad for the man in the street.
We all want more freedom, options, better pricing, more openness and all these things are the opposite of what the major companies want.
So if Apple has done deals and they are happy, whatever it is, it's probably bad. that's what I fear anyway.
Same here. The rep said it could not be done so this will have to be addressed at some point.
Down with the mother ship.
It is frustrating that my iPad/iPhone update apps without syncing back to my computer but that I can't update free podcasts, downloaded music, playlist changes, etc., on my computer and other devices without syncing back to my computer and then syncing the other devices.
If you are downloading and making changes from, say, two iPhones and an iPod, it takes 20 minutes to sync all of the changes to your computer and then sync them all back to the devices. And I invariably get the Playlist/Playlist 1 problem with multiple playlists and have to take time to sort those out.
I hope that whatever else Apple does with iCloud on a paid basis that they make wireless syncing across devices that use the same account a standard feature of iOS 5.