Apple Buys Lala, Streaming music now?

Apple has confirmed that is has bought Lala. The music company that offers music streaming. Based on cloud computing. The company came to the fore front when Google used it's service to offer one song streaming for free on its search results. Lala did not charge for this service.

Lala being the No.1 retailer in the music streaming business.

""The idea of paying 99 cents a track to fill my iPod – I don't need that anymore," says Ted Cohen, a managing partner at TAG Strategic, a music industry consulting firm. "That era is over."

Lala differs from Pandora and iTunes in that it let's you pay to listen to songs at 10 cents a song. You do not need to buy the song. Another notable feature of Lala is that it has a "Vault" which let's u store songs and listen to it later.

With the integration of Lala, Apple may Lala's social features to iTunes.

This is a service that may play the role of the Radio in how music is found and popularized.

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Will Apple's APP store go into overkill?

Apple's APP store according to IDC analysts is heading for a meltdown. This is according to their top 10 predictions. This is because the APP store has too much stock for any one person to navigate. From "Fart" games to applications that are just trivial.

The IDC predictions state "It will be a watershed year in the ascension of mobile devices as strategic platforms for commercial and enterprise developers as over 1 billion access the Internet, iPhone apps triple, Android apps quintuple, and Apple's "iPad" arrives."

Apples claim to receive at least 10,000 APP submissions per week. With an approximate 100 million apps downloaded each month from the app store. Boils down to the fact that whatever you may need or be interestd in there may be an app for that.

Every few months Apple brags about the number of iPhone apps accumulated in its App Store (most recently the count was 100,000), and most of the tech press has been hasty to deflate the hype.

How much of that really helps users or are they simply a waste of time for some. Even if you have all the time in world it's still not enough to work your way around through these myriads of apps.

But that may not be that important with it's large users base the APP store may have apps that suit your individual taste and that's what matters in the end. Every users want to have apps that are more personalized and with their humongous numbers there are enough apps to catch your fancy and interest.

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