6.07.2011

Apple Propels Fanboys into Next Gen Cloud Music Storage...

With an idea found buried in the debris of what used to be the dreams of Z Company. Remember Michael Robertson? Next question, remember 1997? Put those two together, sprinkled with a little digital music revolution, and you get mp3.com, then you would get sued. Michael Robertson was trying to figure out a quick fix to a problem until just recently, most of us were still trying to figure out. You know, OVER 12 YEARS AGO... This is what happens when the record companies are allowed to sue whoever they want for whatever silly reason they want, all because they feel threatened by evolution. All because they have limitless resources... All because they can. It's just business after all. Right?

All the RIAA is doing when they fire off lawsuit after lawsuit at the good people of the Internet, is preventing the inevitable from happening. I swear the RIAA was formed to impede technological progress. What was the last ingenious thing the RIAA came up with? The cassette tape? Compact Discs? Lady Gaga? Sure, but how big of a part did they really play in her rise to fame? I'm guessing not a whole lot. It's all about networking and making your net work for you and your particular niche. You want to hold onto your tired, uninspired business model of sucking the life out of each and every living thing you come into contact with, in a sort of weird surreal Midas Touch paradox, then go right ahead. But when the industry leaves you behind in the dust, don't sit there crying about how you never saw this coming. You've been watching this come for the last twenty years, like a slow motion porn star... Just because NOW you are powerless to stop this, you want to get behind a company instead of trying to sue them so their overall share price is cheap enough for you to buy it up without your accountant even noticing the withdraw.

That, and the fact that you know if you went after one of these big three, it might possibly be YOU who gets sued out of existence. How poetic would that justice be? You know Biggy and Pac would roll over in their graves to fist bump if that happened. Anyways, all complaining and ranting about how the RIAA is quite possibly EVIL incarnate aside, is it weird that Apple is going to charge $24.99 a month for an idea that mp3.com tried to implement over a decade ago? This is more proof positive that, especially in the tech world, it's not who you know, but who you... You know. Putting it more professionally and succinctly, it doesn't matter what great "game changing" "outside the box" "revolutionary" idea or concept you come up with, as long as you have an inexhaustible amount of cash money, you can pretty much do anything you want. It also helps to have the record companies on board rather than trying to depreciate your business with frivolous lawsuits.

It will be interesting to see what Google ends up charging for it's music service once it gets the beta tag lifted. If anyone can offer a great cloud music service like this and even manage to keep it free, yet still be able to support the bandwidth it takes to scale something like this in any sort of large Googley way, it's gotta be Google. I love in the news article how Apple says how much more convenient iTunes Match is compared to Google Music. DUH? Yea, I just wrote DUH in a tech blog. Hey Steve Jobs, I would hope you're polished, silver and white ocd friendly software you've spent ( insert ridiculous amount of time and resources here) on, is more convenient than Google's BETA. But somehow, I have a feeling that it won't run anywhere near as smooth. Unless of course Apple teams up with the RIAA to create the largest online frivolous patent / class action lawsuit app EVER! Don't laugh, stranger things have happened.

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