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07/16/09
Just hope commenting on Gizmodo learns a valuable lesson on "seemless" commenting...
/shakesfist@greytext!
07/16/09
As long as the consumer doesn't notice it doesn't matter. I've been looking forward to cloud based media for a long time.
07/16/09
Perhaps like their TV cousins (i.e Tivo, DVR) they may be able to cache a streamed (less so streamed) song/clip and offer the playback on that specific device?
/ponders
07/16/09
Once suppliers figure out the max we are willing to pay for goods or services it is very unlikely that they will ever go below that number.
07/16/09
07/16/09
Yeah I'm sure apple will still have an "iPod" of some type but its not going to be the hard drive or flash based 8, 16, 32 GB system. Its just going to be an iPod/iPhone and any content you want is going to be there. Your library will instantly converge with the cloud based iTunes store. You can be listening to a song you "own" get in the mood for an older track and access it instantly.
I think the barrier to all of it is the current wireless system as you said. As much cloud based stuff as they're trying to do now, its just not going to really work even with 3G. Once we get ubiquitous 4G service (and VZW's 700mhz spectrum that goes through walls so well) thats when this stuff is going to start but even then it may take the 5G standard before it becomes common place.
07/16/09
Thats the part that I don't really think about to be honest with you. There are going to be the obvious data costs the provider charges as well. I think that its impossible to guess on any level what any of that is going to be though. The wireless providers seem to realize they're going to have to change from what they do now on some level but I doubt its going to benefit the consumer in the end.
07/16/09
Its the "Buy on iTunes/Amazon" links all over. I here something I think I like and I click the link. Found some great artist that I've gotten whole albums from that way, found some that I have to think twice about where, when, and why I got the track in the first place.
07/16/09