MP3.com Founder Robertson Muses On Apple’s Cloud Strategy
Don’t look for Apple to build a music subscription service with its recent acquisition of Lala, says digital music veteran Michael Robertson. Apple’s combination of the iTunes store with Lala’s streaming services will likely renew a value proposition that Robertson himself explored with the MP3.com service a decade ago: online access to music that consumers have already purchased.
“As Apple did with the original iPods, Lala realized that any music solution must include music already possessed by the user,” Robertson writes on TechCrunch. “The Lala setup process provides software to store a personal music library online and then play it from any web browser alongside web songs they vend. This technology plus the engineering and management team is the true value of Lala to Apple.” By TechCrunch
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