12/16/09
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Apple may be leading music services to the computer clouds
It seems as if the internet music business may be heading to the clouds. With its deal this month to buy the web music service Lala, Apple joined MySpace in bringing music services to the next level. These moves seem to be heading these companies to offering a virtual internet jukebox, where fans can access a wide variety of streaming music on PCs and smartphones, without taking up space on their hard drives, according to a report in the New York Times. While consumers might need to be guided into storing their music collections on web servers and listening to them in new ways, Apple could also integrate such a music service into the iPhone, the iPod Touch and all other existing and future Apple gadgets that connect to the internet, offering a web based version of its popular iTunes. And for a fee, users could utilize a cloud-based catalog while no longer synchronizing their music collections between devices, or having to worry about running out of storage space on their phone and more, various internet sites have speculated. Both Apple and MySpace Music refused to comment on the future plans to offer streaming versions of their music services.