Re:iOS 5 Likely Pushed To The Fall After A Cloud Unveiling A...
by billpaetzke on Sunday March 27, 2011 @02:29AM
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It's all about licensing agreements between the record labels and the distributors (Apple and Amazon).
Apple is trying to get a repeat-download license for songs sold on iTunes. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/04/apple_negotiat...
It's odd, but we spoke of Amazon and Google in hushed voices, as we saw them as our biggest competitors -- we figured that both of them would have services shortly, and we saw our early mover status as our predominant advantage. Yet nearly 6 years later, neither of them have anything comparable.
The tech was there then, and it's here in massive force now. Why does this not exist?