Items tagged with Cloud-Player
Apple perfected a vertical market when it developed the iPhone, iOS, and the App Store, effectively walling off the garden, as it were. In fact, the only real loophole for evading the standards and practices of the App Store was the Safari Web browser, which of course flung open the doors to the Internet with a single tap. Amazon has now taken that loophole and exploited it in a major way by making its entire 22 million-song MP3 library available for purchase on iOS devices. The Amazon MP3 Store's mobile website for the aforementioned iOS devices has been optimized using HTML5, thus enabling purchases directly from Amazon with the availability of immediate playback using the Amazon Cloud Player...
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With so much comparison between Apple “this” and Google “that” (with Microsoft “and the other” thrown in on occasion), it’s sometimes easy to overlook Amazon and its ever-encroaching roster of technologies, even though Amazon’s announcements are occasionally doozies. The latest is a big overhaul to Amazon’s Cloud Player, which includes scan-and-match technology not unlike Apple’s iTunes Match service. Basically, the scan-and-match feature will comb through your hard drive to find all your tunes, match them to Amazon’s substantial catalog, and added to the list of tracks you can stream through Cloud Player. Any past (or future)...
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