Apple wants to extend its cloud storage to films, television
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pApple’s recent affair with cloud computing appears to be far from a dalliance: Apple has supposedly spoken to some of the major film studios about allowing iTunes users to store their purchased content on the company’s servers, according to unnamed sources speaking to a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10462562-261.html” CNET/a. The content, including TV shows and music, would be accessible from all Internet-connected devices./p
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Since Apple doesn’t comment on anything before it’s final, we’re left to speculate on the reasoning behind such a move. Some analysts say that sales of digital movies and music may have declined between 2008 and 2009 because users are becoming wary of how much hard drive space they devote to these files. This may be a bit of a reach, but HD movies can indeed add up pretty quickly for those who haven’t gotten around to upgrading their computers or getting a beastly sized external drive.
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Before Apple can enact cloud storage, though, it will need the approval of content creators and studios to do so. Unfortunately for Apple, many media companies have been joining forces to exert some control over digital media standards. One such group is the a href=”http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/01/studios-flesh-out-dece-universal-video-drm-formats.ars”Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem/a, which counts among its members Twentieth Century Fox Film, Netflix, and Sony. Nonetheless, Apple is a href=”http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/08/experts-debate-apples-plans-for-huge-nc-data-center.ars”building a new data center in North Carolina/a that is speculated to be the future home of Apple’s streaming headquarters, with streaming technology provided by a href=”http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/cloud-storage-may-be-main-focus-of-apples-lala-buyout.ars”Apple’s recent acquisition of Lala/a.
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John Gruber of a href=”http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/03/apple-cloud”Daring Fireball/a speculates that the cloud storage could mean one of two things: Apple may want to provide a sort of backup or sync point for users’ media, or it wants to remove local storage for the customer entirely (thereby exercising even more control over the user’s content). Removing local storage would bring the iTunes Store model dangerously close to that of Netflix and other streaming services; at a minimum, customers would no longer be able to claim even the limited ownership they have of their media in the current format.
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pA backup, on the other hand, imight/i be more appealing if it’s pitched the right way. As it stands, recovery of iTunes Store-purchased media is far from difficult#8212; often a note to customer service will do the trick#8212; but being able to get whole seasons of TV shows off a cramped hard drive without this extra step to get them back indicates that a cloud-based library- or backup-type solution might actually be helpful to some users.
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Video Chat coming in future iPhones/iPads? — Some interesting information has come to light this evening that may indicate a future direction of Apple’s iPhone OS products. Below is some pretty definitive evidence that future iPhones and iPads will have video chatting capability.
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etc: Apple TV software is now at version 3.0.2. No one seems to know what’s fixed, but we hope it fixes a bug that says the hard drive is full even when there’s nothing on it.
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Apple in e-book talks, may have Amazon Kindle in sights
Apple’s long-rumored tablet could end up being a Kindle competitor after all if Apple follows through with some talks. The company is reportedly in negotiations with HarperCollins Publishers for e-book distribution on the device, according to insiders speaking to the Wall Street Journal. Though the deal isn’t solid yet, it’s an indicator that the upcoming device—expected to be introduced at Apple’s media event on January 27—will indeed break into the e-book space.
The supposed deal would have HarperCollins setting the price of e-books while Apple would get a cut of sales. The books in question would come with “added features,” which could include videos, interviews, social networking apps, and other media. Apple is also said to be in talks with other publishers—no surprise there, as Apple has been rumored to be shopping the tablet around to publishers for months—so an agreement may not necessarily come from HarperCollins. Still, the mere fact that the WSJ has vetted this information shows that Apple is serious in turning this device into a media consumption machine.
Analysts, of course, disagree on the yet-to-be-announced details of the Apple tablet, with some agreeing that it will be aimed at the e-book reader market and others saying that it will be more focused on video than print. There’s no reason it can’t try to be both, although in order to support video (even just as an e-book extra), it would have to have a backlit display, which tends to be less favorable when it comes to sitting down with your favorite e-book.
Part of the reason the Kindle and other e-book readers have managed to become popular is because of the simplistic and eye-friendly nature of E Ink (let’s just say that I’ll sit down for a few hours with my favorite book on the Kindle long before I try to do the same on a backlit screen and doom myself to a day-long headache). How Apple plans to address this with the tablet is anyone’s guess, but it’s likely that we’ll find out most of the details in a week.
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Apple is supposedly planning to use its acquisition of online music service Lala to transform iTunes into a Web-based service, according to sources “briefed” on the strategy. Infrastructure and licensing hurdles must still be overcome, but if all goes according to plan, it may change they way we think about media ownership forever.
Lala currently offers two ways to buy music—10¢ buys the right to stream the song anytime from Lala’s servers, whereas a variable price—about 69¢-$1.29—gives you unlimited streaming as well as an mp3 download. Lala also allows users to stream songs they already own at no charge.
