“In order to ensure its service has the best chance of competing with rival cloud-based music services, especially those that may be coming from Cupertino, Amazon has just introduced an iPad-friendly version of Cloud Player and expanded the music storage capabilities of Cloud Drive,” Killian Bell reports for Cult of Mac.
“Although users shouldn’t expect to see a native Cloud Player app appear in the App Store anytime soon, a new web-based player optimised for the iPad can now be accessed through your device’s web browser,” Bell reports. “This will allow you to listen to all of the music you have stored in your Cloud Drive while you’re on the go.”
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Bell reports, “In addition to this, Amazon has announced unlimited storage space for music for all customers who subscribe to a paid Cloud Drive storage plan — even those on the lowest price plan at $20 per year. While storage for other files remains capped depending on your plan, you can upload as many music files (MP3 and AAC) as you wish.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
Thanks but no thanks for browser-based cloud services.
Buh bye.
I can tell already… This is just gonna be a hoot. 😉
No thanks, I will stick with Apple on this.
Hey Lynn your Toshiba toting husband will just love this service won’t he? Because the Toshiba won’t run iCloud so he’s practically f%^#ed where his iPod’s concerned.
Anything that runs iTunes “runs” iCloud.
This sounds FANTASTIC! Much better than anything coming out of Cupertino! iCloud? PULLLEAZE! No one wants native apps anymore … everyone remembers how much better the iPhone ecosystem was when there were only web-based apps! Welcome To The Social! Amateur Hour Is Over! Ringo Is Dead! (Happy Birthday, Mr. Starr!
Ahh, competition. Ain’t it great?
Don’t be so quick to knock Amazon. While I think they are way off target with their cloud service, their Internet presence and potent sales generating model have been very successful in this rapidly changing on-line environment.
Who the hell wants to stream their *own* music to their device?!?!? Especially now that carriers are capping data limits. Someone at Amazon is high!
Same process is being used by Apple’s iCloud (Ability to access music from their servers.). So, I assume you feel the same about their “cloud” services?
Apple’s iCloud does not stream the music. It’s a one time download of the song to the device which is then played natively from then on, with no internet connection required to play songs.
The carriers are going to love this, what with all the data plan overages it will generate.
Precisely! Can’t wait for the Amazon-Verizon partnership to provide music “services” to their customers, all for a small monthly charge.
Better read the fine print for the data caps. Listen to more than 12 songs a day, and you’re going over for sure!
I’m so sick of Amazon copying Apple. Everytime Apple announces something, Amazon fires back with their own bullshit half-baked browser version.
Amazon: copy cats who don’t get user experience.
Apple: the real deal.
“users shouldn’t expect to see a native Cloud Player app appear in the App Store anytime soon”
It’s not hard to crow about being #1 when you disallow competition, and this is the biggest reason why Apple will eventually kill their own goose. Like most people, I want choices of browser, mail, calendaring, music player, file storage, but instead of simply ensuring their software is the best, Apple keeps denying anything that competes with them.
… And how reliable is cloud streaming going to be? Apple’s 256kbps files are going to be a problem on a busy 3g network, 128kbps will work better but will still probaly have dropouts and buffering?
So, if the acceptable performance will mainly be on wifi isn’t this whole cloud streaming thing largely redundant with Home Sharing? (except when away from home with good wifi access)
Personally, I’d rather see more storage memory in the portable devices to be able to hold a larger library instead of depending on
unpredictable network access.