“Apple will likely announce a cloud-based iTunes streaming service on Tuesday, but will not offer an all-you-can-eat music subscription plan, investment firm Piper Jaffray has predicted,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“Analyst Gene Munster issued a note to investors Monday after Apple teased on its website that it would have an “exciting announcement” on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Eastern,” Hughes reports. “He said it’s ‘probable’ that Apple will announce a cloud-based iTunes service that would allow content streaming to Internet-connected devices.”
Hughes reports, “Munster is not, however, convinced that Apple will announce a music subscription service this week.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
Music subscriptions won’t work because of the potential for abuse and all of the limitations they would have to put on it.
And streaming? Streaming what? Movies are already taken care of mostly. Music? Well, now we’re supposed to pay Apple a thousand percent more than another music streaming service? No thanks.
We’ll find out tomorrow.
Not for me, I want my music on my hard drive
National news (CBS) is reporting it’s the Beatles coming to iTunes.
Don’t want No Beatles…I have bug spray for that!!!
VERIZON IPHONE SUCKAS!!!! somebody had to say it. sorry.
Yes! Finally! Now I can actually get a MacBook!
G5 PowerBook front and center.
The problem with “The Cloud” is “Cloud Access” What if you live out in the middle of nowhere? How do you access all your tunes stored on the cloud? Oh yeah, thats right, you can’t.
There are thousands of reasons why I personally won’t use The Cloud for personal storage.. and every ISP in the world is one of them..
Apple will announce the dead of cable companies as we know it.
They are going to unveil a subscription service for movies so you will never need a cable company. it is going to be “cable on demand”. or is it?
Apple is announcing the end of life for OS X, they are going with windows.
My source(my dog kasey) confirmed this, when asked he licked my face.
Your music will exist both on your HD, AND in the Cloud!
My music was in the cloud before it got Limewired.
I would rather have an iTunes cloud system than an AYCE subscription. Cloud allows me to enjoy my purchases on all devices, while a subscription devalues my previous purchases. Hm.
The problem with the cloud is that you have to have access. If you’re connected via wifi or wire then you’re good. I’ve just switched to 200MB/month with ATT. I doubt I’ll be using the cloud outside of non-metered usage.
Still like the idea. But we will need cheaper or unmetered data access for it to really fly.
The only problem is this is beginning to look like Skynet. All devices connected and in perfect harmony until Arnie goes postal.
Apple will be releasing iPad 2 just in time for Black Friday!
The UBS merger is probably the next place of contact. Sure they are focused on the uber-riche, but there may be connections in your search that now need to include UBS as the source of investment research.
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There is a fairly limited, but likely lucrative and attractive enough a market for music subscription service: teenagers.
Music choices of teens (and especially pre-teens) have fairly short shelf life. After expiration, these choices generally tend to become a major embarrassment for majority of people. In addition, that particular demographic tends to consume fairly large quantities of such questionable music choices (Demi Lovato, Serena Gomez…). Music subscription service would be a perfect solution for them. Give them all-you-can-eat subscription, have them listen to whatever they want. Eventually yank that subscription away, once their musical tastes have matured. By then, they’ll begin to earn some pocket money, which they can use to actually BUY music; by then, the choices will be much more permanent.