Amazon ups the ante on Cloud Music, adds iPad support
Amazon announces Cloud Music. Apple announces iCloud. Apple shows that iCloud is better than Amazon Cloud. Amazon announces some major Cloud Music escalation, including Cloud Player for web getting iPad support, unlimited storage for music, and free storage for all Amazon-purchased MP3s. Yeah.
"Customers are already enjoying Cloud Drive and Cloud Player and now for just $20 a year, customers can get unlimited space for music," said Craig Pape Director of Amazon Music. "Additionally, we are adding free storage for all MP3s purchased from Amazon MP3, and support for the iPad. Our customers love Cloud Drive and Cloud Player and we're excited to innovate these services on their behalf."
It's the iPad part that interests us the most, of course.
Also new, Cloud Player for Web on iPad. Cloud Player, combined with unlimited space for music in Cloud Drive, enables customers to play music stored in the cloud on any Android phone, Android tablet, Mac, PC, and now on their iPad. Cloud Player for Web has been optimized to offer customers streaming playback of their Cloud Drive music using the Safari browser for iPad. To access Cloud Player for iPad, customers simply open their Safari browser and visit (www.amazon.com/cloudplayer) to start listening to their music.
Apple's iCloud is in beta right now and will launch this fall alongside iOS 5. Whether or not Apple makes any changes in response to these Amazon's announcement, iCloud will offer far more services for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users than Amazon can, including backup and restore, apps, documents, and more. But strictly for music, for users in the US, Amazon Cloud might just have gotten a lot more compelling.
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Still haven't set up my music for the Amazon cloud player but now I probably will. Looks like a good service. Nit really comparable with Apple iCloud though. ICloud should really be called "iCloud Sync". It doesn't host your files like I wish it did (thus negating the need for larger local storage drives- especially the costly MBA upgraded drives). ICloud is a good way to sync stuff, I suppose, but iTunes did a good enough job of that with a simple plugging in of my iDevices.
Amazon cloud drive has some amazing potential.
Although I get most of my music from iTunes, I'll buy the occasional album or track from Amazon, so this is great. More cloud services are a good thing, IMO, but I must admit that their mobile app solution, while well-executed, may not be the best solution. My experience with using iPad's Safari as a media player has been okay at best. We'll see if Amazon can find a way around the limitations (I.e. Low RAM, inconsistent caching)
google music, amazong cloud player, apple's icloud, etc. i just don't like the idea of having MY music somewhere else, then having to rely on internet connection (I'm an AT&T iPhone user) to play it. i hate buffering. i'd pay, and already do, more for more local storage space. bring me my 64GB iPhone (or more would be nice also =] )!!! >=|
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