Amazon beats Apple, Google to music storage, streaming service [ArsTechnica]
Amazon customers in the U.S. now have access to 5 GB of space on Amazon’s new Cloud Drive to store unencrypted AAC or MP3 music files in that space and access them from multiple devices.
There had plenty of speculation about a similar type of music service being developed by Apple or Google, but Amazon has beaten those two to the punch. Amazon is also allowing customers to store other files, not just music files, meaning that Cloud Drive could become a competitor to cloud services like the popular Dropbox.
Customers who purchase an album from Amazon will be automatically upped to 20Gb. MP3 purchases from Amazon will be automatically stored on the Cloud Drive and will not count against the 20Gb total.
Amazon Cloud Drive is also included in the Amazon MP3 Android app. If you’re an iPhone/iPod/iPad user, it's unlikely that Apple will give this iTunes competitor the green light.
In recent years, Apple has been the dominant player in the digital music market. Meanwhile, more recently Google’s has been working on its own online music service but, for now, Amazon has grabbed the lead in the cloud-based music world with it's new service.
I had one of these harddrives for about 3 mohnts transfer speed over Ethernet was terrible and isn't fully compatible with os x snow leopard ,I wanted this to work so much but eventually it failed to power on so i returned the product and changed it for a couple of western digital 1tb hard drives and just hooked them up to each pc via USB not my ideal solution but until a manufacturer makes a network harddrive fully compatible with os x snow leopard and windows 7 I will be sticking with USB dri
Posted by: Juliusz | Saturday, August 11, 2012 at 11:21 PM