Lala departure adieu-adieu – Hints at iTunes streaming music overhaul
May 1, 2010 apple, itunes, phones
If you’ve been hoping for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to jump on the cyclosis medicine bandwagon, this latest act of news should be an encouraging signboard of things to come. Apple has just announced that it will be shuttering the doors to its recently-acquired Lala online cyclosis medicine overhaul. The move is sending waves of speculation reverberating around the blogosphere, tanning up rumors of a cloud-based iTunes cyclosis medicine feature into a frothy mess.
Apple announced their accomplishment of Lala late shoemaker’s last year, giving many streaming medicine fans hope of an iTunes-based online medicine option from Apple. The feature would put option Apple in direct competition with online music services like Spotify, Thumbplay and Rhapsody.
Some had even hoped that Apple would announce the lineament alongside the iPad introduction. That didn’t happen. Today’s newsworthiness, however, is the most encouraging sign of a streaming music overhaul brewing in Apple’s Cupertino headquarters. The iPhone manufacturer has already gotten its feet wet with the cloud-based MobileMe service – which syncs and manages your contacts, calendar and email from the vane – and is widely believed to be readying some kind of internet-based lineament for their iTunes ecosystem.
Even more encouraging than the Lala closure proclamation is Apple announcement that current members with unused credits in their Lala accounts volition have those credits automatically transferred to their iTunes history for use in the iTunes memory. If that doesn’t point to an iTunes-based streaming music overhaul, we don’t know what does.
As it stand, Lala is no longer accepting new member signups. Apple says it will take the service offline on May 31st, giving stream users time to prepare to rich person their cloud-medicine dependence interrupted for an indefinite duration of meter.
What say you? Would you want/use a cloud-based iTunes music service? We’re sure some of you out there rich person medicine libraries larger than the 32GB iPhone 3GS can clasp. Would the ability to memory all that medicine in the swarm and wirelessly flow songs at will be enough to convince you to sign up for the overhaul? What if it costs more than Lala? Let us know in the comments below!
[Via: Lala]
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