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My money is on Apple's music streaming service, but it seems awfully quick since the LaLa acquisition.
by J3L2404 16y ago
My money is on Apple's music streaming service, but it seems awfully quick since the LaLa acquisition.
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- noodle 16y agoi think its probably going to be email. seriously, though, streaming is probably most likely, but i'm going to go with subscription service.
- allenbrunson 16y agoin Dalton Caldwell's startup school talk, he said he was familiar with some of the people from the LaLa acquisition. he said he was pretty sure they weren't working on anything similar to what they had been doing in their old company. if true, then Apple isn't working on a streaming service after all.
- smackfu 16y agoIs music streaming really that hard a service, that you would need to acquire someone to figure it out? Apple already does DRM'd video streaming, and that's a much more difficult problem.
- sandipc 16y agoI think they mainly acquired Lala for their streaming deals with content providers.
- yardie 16y agoI find that hard to believe. As the 800lb gorilla in online music I'm absolutely certain they could hammer out a streaming deal with the contacts they already have. The only thing to stop streaming getting into iTunes is boss Jobs himself.
- dandelany 16y agoEverything I've read has indicated that Lala's contracts with the music industry were non-transferable and would be dissolved upon Lala's sale or acquisition.
- Timothee 16y agoWhich is one thing Dalton Caldwell explained at Startup School: a music startup either doesn't have deals in place and is thus not a good acquisition target; or does have deals in place and is still not a good acquisition target because deals are usually not transferable upon acquisition.
- rmc 16y agoThe hardest part is not the technology, but getting it all legal and accepted by the music companies.