WaPo article on Apple's intentions with Lala

[GARussell]

It says that the money will come from Lala's ability to upload songs already in the customer's CD collection, so that (cloud computing here) the collection can then be listened to from any computer, any browser.

The author says that Apple is keen to beat Amazon to the punch regarding music and cloud computing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/19/AR2010011901581.html

[rostasi]

This summer, while attending over a week of symposia and projects involving cloud computing,

I had brought along the app, Simplify Media, installed on an iPod Touch

just for this purpose of having access to my home music collection.

It was really wonderful that I didn't have to rely on a pre-downloaded playlist of tunes.

I could listen to anything from a collection of 200,000+ tunes from 22,000+ artists

housed on a drive in Dallas while I was enjoying life 5400 miles away near the Danube.

With this S.M. app, and possibly soon with the Apple/Lala joint venture,

the "cloud" aspect comes into play with many people joining in together to listen.

A friend in Tokyo will occasionally listen to my collection while I'm enjoying his.

Telling him about new releases that I'd think he'd enjoy

(or even old ones that I'd placed in iTunes)

are now followed up with the words, "You know where to look!."

Music radio seems to be a receding memory

with the big ol' servers churning away in

distant lands providing the base for our

entertainment of the future.