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Re:iOS 5 Likely Pushed To The Fall After A Cloud Unveiling A... by daeken on Sunday March 27, 2011 @02:15AM (#2374341)
You know, it sort of baffles me that we don't yet have a functional music locker. From 2005 to 2007 I worked for MP3tunes, who built a damn solid music locker. Despite a complete lack of tech budget, marketing budget, etc we managed to build a great service. In late 2005, after our massive push to pull this off, I was able to sync in all my music and play it all from "the cloud". Why, in 2011, do we not have this?

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?

Re:iOS 5 Likely Pushed To The Fall After A Cloud Unveiling A... by billpaetzke on Sunday March 27, 2011 @02:29AM (#2374362)
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...

Re:iOS 5 Likely Pushed To The Fall After A Cloud Unveiling A... by S_A_P on Sunday March 27, 2011 @08:00AM (#2374777)
My guess is the RIAA/rest of the biz just wouldn't allow it on favorable terms.