A leaked presentation slide unique to PreCentral indicates that Hewlett-Packard is establishing a cloud locker for audio and motion pictures for its webOS-drive TouchPad tablet. What’s best, HP doesn’t seem to be terribly interested in co-operating with record labels on the initiative:
According to that slide
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This is actually good news for Apple…
After Amazon launched its web-based audio locker and player for Android (iOS apps is still nowhere to be seen), it was immediately noticed that users can upload any song to the cloud, not just the MP3s bought from Amazon. Record labels were reportedly shocked by the development and considered legal actions. The new music industry feels it’s entitled to collect royalties from companies like Amazon over services that let users store ripped tracks. Google has allegedly grown so frustrated dealing with the labels that they’re said to be considering scrapping their audio service entirely. Apple is expected to unveil own cloud-based media locker at some point, part of cloud iTunes.
MobileMe users can already store and stream songs tracks to their iOS devices using the free iDisk app even though Apple isn’t advertising this feature.聽Third parties also offer similar cloud storage capabilities, including Dropbox and Mozy. The more big names in tech release cloud lockers without asking for the audio industry’s permission
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Of course
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