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12/10/09
But on to the article - Lala is a smart move, no doubt, and I really like the idea of having access to the cloud for music where you've bought the right to listen to the track. Funny, if you listen to the RIAA, that's kind of the only right you ever had.
Think what it'll do for the price (and spec) of the iPod - suddenly the 8GB Touch could be useful again, and who will need more than say 64GB of music at any one time?
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I'm pissed off about this because of its implication of completely severing the tie between listener and artist. Now we will not even physically own a track, further decreasing the value we put into the music.
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Since my wife got a Droid, it has been eye opening to see that there is almost no where that she doesn't have a high speed internet connection. Why download the podcast, when streaming it is just as fast, clean and interruption free?
Would Apple risk their revenue model by offering MP3s for a price that would undercut competitors, like Lala did, but with the backing of the Apple and iPhone brand?
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For several months, Lala has been field testing a version of its service that works on the iPhone or iPod touch. The company has told people in the music industry that test users spent at least as much money every month, on average, buying the service's 10-cent Web songs as iTunes users do paying for full-priced downloads.
Interesting issue that arrises out of this, and would be similar to the infamous Kindle-1984 episode:
Certain legal issues remain hazy: If music becomes a virtual product, it isn't clear how Apple might be able to guarantee a buyer would retain access to a song in perpetuity if, for instance, a new owner gained control of a record label's catalog and changed the terms of its deal with the retailer.
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And by the way, lala is a REALLY stupid name.
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[gizmodo.com]
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Because that is the only thing I think of when I hear about updates, or added features.
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And i think itunes works excellently. After a week of using sweetFm i connect my laptop to my wifi and turn on home sharing and copy over all the new songs i have and no duplicates. It manages downloading and updating all my podcasts and it does it all pretty damn fast.
I will say that the store loading is the only annoying and slow part of it all.
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Or, in the immortal words of Reducto: "There is no government. There's only a few multinational corporations that own everything!" *Time Warner/AOL sign blinks on*
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Thanks for at least pointing it out, but this isn't newsworthy.
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Personally I don't see a need for cloud computing since I use a remote desktop connection and have access to all my apps and data from outside the home.
I also prefer to have all my data on my own hard disks.
(I don't use online email for anything serious, I don't use online photo or data sharing services, I don't social networks.)
I also prefer to minimize the ability of big business to monitor my habits (yes I know I can't eliminate data mining about me completely).
By moving fully to cloud computing you are laying your entire method of working, socializing, buying and communicating bare.
You are basically increasing the ability of corporations to analyse you even more than with "traditional" computing, because you are basically uploading just about everything to their servers.
So while cloud computing may have it's benefits, I think it should not be made to kill traditional computing.
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But yeah, with what I've heard with netbooks running Windows 7 well (which I think is what you're saying?), you have another good, normal-OS option that seems to make this Chrome OS make even less sense.