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Funny how it so many journalists believe that Apple would need a huge $1 billion data center to do streaming when Spotify obviously doesn't.
by henrrrik 16y ago
Funny how it so many journalists believe that Apple would need a huge $1 billion data center to do streaming when Spotify obviously doesn't.
- manvsmachine 16y agoApple doing it and Spotify doing it are two completely different things, traffic-wise. Assuming that Apple is basing their streaming solution off of Lala's model (not a given, but why else acquire them?), we're talking about giving every iTunes user streaming access to their entire music library, including songs that weren't purchased through iTunes (which would require a serious amount of cloud storage). Spotify reached one million users sometime last year; there are how many millions of iPhones and iPod Touch's out in the world?
- mzl 16y agoEven though the most recent numbers from Spotify indicate something on the order of 10 million users, I agree that Apple still has larger innate audience. However, Spotify uses filesharing to further decrease the load on their own servers, which I don't think Lala used. For some fun details on the Spotify model, see http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/ http://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify-p2p10/