Music Locker, the so-called audio-video streaming service from Apple, is almost ready for launch, at least that's what the press agency claims Reuters which cites sources from within the company. Apparently Apple has finished work on its data centers and on the software that will support this new streaming service, but for now it is not known when it will be officially launched. It is not even known under what name the service will be launched because inside Apple only those in management have such information.
Apple Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc, whose own music efforts have stalled, according to several people familiar with both companies' plans. Apple's plans will allow iTunes customers to store their songs on a remote server, and then access them from wherever they have an Internet connection, said two of these people who asked not to be named as the talks are still confidential.
Apple intends to launch this service before those from Google who apparently encountered some problems in the preparations before the launch. On the other hand, this rush left the Apple company without contracts with the big record companies that must give their consent for the operation of such a service. Everyone is waiting for the release of Music Locker after WWDC 2011 and after iPhone 5 because everything would work with the new iOS 5 operating system which should be released in the summer of this year.
