Lala Land: How Apple’s Deal Gives It A Leg-Up To The Cloud
By Robert Andrews on Dec 07, 2009 with Comments 5
Robert Andrews editor at our content partner, paidContentUK examines the recent acquisition of Lala by Apple.
iTunes Store remains the market-leading music retailer, and iTunes the popular app, but competitors are gathering.
As more of our lives are stored online, so more music is streaming from the cloud. In on-demand, Spotify is hoping to launch in the U.S. by Q2, MySpace Music is ramping up. In radio, Pandora and Last.fm are in the background.
CNET reports Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) wants to “obtain some of Lala’s payment and fulfillment systems” – but that would be pretty underwhelming. With MySpace having taken iLike and imeem off the market, a more interesting idea is that Apple will use Lala to inject some remotely-hosted goodness in to … to read the full story go to paidContent.co.uk.
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