epath
Joined: 09 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:20 am Post subject: Are you ready to hand over your music to Amazon? |
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FIRST music went digital, then we started downloading it. Soon it may be time to let go altogether.
Pop songs may have moved from vinyl to tape to CD and now iTunes, but one thing has always remained more or less the same.
That's a sense of tangible ownership.
Even MP3s, for the most part, are stored on a device that you can hold in your hand — an iPod, or a laptop, or an external hard drive.
But the next big shift in music consumption may be to let go altogether and let someone else store your favourite albums for you.
Amazon last week launched a new application called Cloud Player, which has already started shaking up the music industry.
The record labels seem to hate it, tech journos are going nuts for it and Apple is no doubt very, very worried.
..Why? Because it has the potential to replace iTunes.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/are-you-ready-to-hand-over-your-music-to-amazons-cloud-player/story-e6frfro0-1226035505937#ixzz1IvRi62j4 |
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