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Originally Posted by bhartman36
I thought the iCloud/iTunes in the Cloud announcement was more impressive than the iOS 5 announcement. Having your music pushed to your devices from the cloud (rather than streaming from the cloud) is somewhat impressive. Everything else (having calendar & mail sync between devices, for example) seemed like it fell into the "What the hell took you so long?" category.
However, I do think that Jobs & Apple oversold the convenience of their music tagging feature. "Weeks" to upload your music collection? Seriously? Is Apple assuming people are still using 1200 baud modems to upload music?
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Yeah weeks to download made me laugh. But on the Amazon you can also download to your device as well, what I like about the amazon cloud service better is you have more control on what you want to be downloaded and uploaded to the cloud. Google uses a Cache (pinned) system when you aren't streaming, which is pretty cool feature, doesn't use any internal or sd card memory but you can use it when you have a bad connection etc. And the fact you do have "true" cloud service by being able to stream from the web page really means your music is everywhere.
I don't like how Apple will charge for 'substituting" your music that wasnt' bought from iTunes. I would say 80% of my library is ripped. I'm a yard sale scavenger during the summer. buy cd's for like .50 a rip away.
I would have to pay Apple $25 a year to listen to my own music.
At least with Amazon I have more control over the storage.
but if someone who lives basically in iTunes and all their songs are iTunes then this is good. For people with more advanced music library and wider range of sources, Amazon is a better option for you IMHO. google will be interesting to see. So far it's Invitation only Beta for Free. I signed up, I like it, it's android application is wonderful, very visually striking. but we'll see when they do their pricing. So far the whole thing is free. so that wins, for now.