In North Carolina, Apple is preparing the launch of a new data center where several new MobileMe and iTunes services will operate. Those from Financial Times I believe that Apple will launch this spring a service that will allow users to save their entire music collection on iTunes servers and listen to it online from any iDevice/Mac wherever they are. This new service would not be free of course, but it would offer the company a very big advantage over Android, Windows Phone 7 or other similar operating systems for which their manufacturers do not offer such services yet.
Apple, which rocked digital music services such as Pandora, Rdio and MOG last week by announcing plans to keep 30 percent of all revenues from subscriptions taken out through its App Store, has clarified its plans for using remote storage, known as the cloud, according to several music industry executives.
More than a year after buying Lala, a cloud-based digital music service, Apple is now looking to use the cloud mainly to allow users of its iTunes store to back up their collections and access them from any Apple device.
One person with knowledge of Apple's plans said the company did not want to undermine the market that it dominates for paid downloads, likening its plans for the cloud to "insurance.
Of course, it's very tempting to have your entire music collection available online anywhere in the world and to be able to listen to it anytime if you have an internet connection. My question for you is: is it worth paying a monthly fee to use this service in Romania? The data connections in Romania are not really that fast and the traffic is limited or unlimited or the monthly speed limit. I for one would not pay for such a service.
