AppleInsider | Amazon Cloud Drive challenging Apple's iCloud with unlimited music storage →
Here’s the thing… Amazon’s model for this is not smart.
Amazon does many things well. Selling music is not one of them.
They need to remember what they do well and why it is good… like online books. They are the best. That’s because they store once and serve many - purchase a book with your Kindle account and then sync with any other Kindle or Kindle app that you sign into your account with. That’s what iTunes/iCloud will do with music. No need to store stuff yourself and then use another app to upload to cloud storage. It will be automatic.
Not only is this good for the user, it’s good for Apple. Think about it. With Amazon’s model, if 1000 people own the same song and upload it to their Cloud Drive, Amazon stores it 1000 times. Apple will store it once because they link to iTunes purchase. And if your song came from somewhere other than itunes, you just pay $25/yr to get iTunes access to songs you own. Everybody wins.
I don’t care about unlimited storage if it requires effort. I’d much prefer unlimited access and zero effort.
That’s smart.
