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Not yet -- I am bummed we haven't been able to make it happen yet but it is definitely on the list.
Yeah... no linux is a killer for me. Can I get a notification or something when there is a support for linux?
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This doesn't make sense. This isn't like Facebook or iOS where you are a sharecropper working their platform and they can pull the rug from under you at anytime. The platform here is the web, Amazon doesn't own the web, any company you build on the web could attract competition from anybody else. Building your business on top of Amazon's top-notch infrastructure doesn't give Amazon any advantage if they decide to com…
The products I mention are things like Cloud Monitoring tools, Management services for your AWS instances, and other things specific to Amazon Web Services. One of my products, for example, is a service that runs detailed reports on the usage logs that Amazon generates for Cloudfront and S3. Amazon could wipe it out completely with a feature that wouldn't even make the front page here. They've deliberately stayed awa…
[citation needed]
At the scale AWS is operating I guess Amazon isn't even fully aware of all the stuff going on there. No surprise an elephant can stomp onto ants.
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That's what AWS was developed for originally - running Amazon's products.
Actually, that is sort of a myth. AWS was built independently of the core Amazon.com platform and specifically for the cloud marketplace.
I'm pretty sure I heard that in a talk on AWS given by an Amazon product manager, but I could be wrong (or he could be wrong).
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Didn't Audiogalaxy used to be a P2P service in the early 00s?
It did. We are some of the same folks, but a totally different service now.
Am I correct to say that this is essentially a web based version of iTunes?
Insofar as the iPad is essentially an MP3 player, yes.
As a non-US there is no way for me to use this. Just put aside that, is it actually any legal reason for using things like dropbox to upload music purchased and streamed for private uses? BTW that one album/20GB offers only last until the end of the year, and it only last for a year. After that, you would have the habit of using the service but be reverted to the free plan. However since all the new purchases on amaz…
> As a non-US there is no way for me to use this. I'm in Australia and that's what it looked like to me initially too, but after manually uploading an MP3 and then attempting to play it, the Cloud Player then worked.
Uploaded an mp3 manually and tried to play, but got the warning of being outside the US :(
Amazon's storage plans are expensive compared to Google's Amazon 5 GB (FREE) 20 GB ($20 / year) 50 GB ($50 / year) 100 GB ($100 / year) 200 GB ($200 / year) 500 GB ($500 / year) 1000 GB ($1000 / year) Google 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) 80 GB ($20.00 USD per year) 200 GB ($50.00 USD per year) 400 GB ($100.00 USD per year) 1 TB ($256.00 USD per year)
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Insofar as the iPad is essentially an MP3 player, yes.
I don't get your example? You cite one use of the iPad and compared it to my statement. So this means I'm looking at it too narrowly? Elaborate please?
To elaborate: Yes, Amazon Cloud Drive can act like iTunes, insofar as you buy tracks from Amazon and can play them thru a browser via the MP3 player. No question Amazon will, like Apple & iTunes, expand this ability by using this "cloud drive" as the focal point for an assortment of applications, now that Amazon is in the e-book, e-movie, e-music, etc. business. I expect the Kindle will start using this in both overt and covert fashion. As Amazon observes what people use their "cloud drive" for, they will provide matching services to enhance and lock-in use thereof. The intent is to make this a disruptive product: its full potential may be unclear, but it's the groundwork for new ways of doing things - and new ways for Amazon to make money.
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I don't get your example? You cite one use of the iPad and compared it to my statement. So this means I'm looking at it too narrowly? Elaborate please?
You cite one use of Amazon Cloud Drive, which I compared to. Yes, the point was to illustrate you're looking at it too narrowly. To elaborate: Yes, Amazon Cloud Drive can act like iTunes, insofar as you buy tracks from Amazon and can play them thru a browser via the MP3 player. No question Amazon will, like Apple & iTunes, expand this ability by using this "cloud drive" as the focal point for an assortment of applica…
You're coming from a 'what it could be' which is at best guess in your own words, unclear. Right now they are using music as a beach head into the market. In future it could be something video or word processing related.
Is that what you're trying to say?