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Very strange, why is that?
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I think it's bold of Amazon to launch essentially a minimum viable product and beat Apple to the punch. Now they have customers and are getting meaningful feedback to make future improvements. You rarely see this outside of Apple and startups. I'm glad to see Apple running into some real competition.
You can hardly say that Amazon has 'beaten Apple to the punch". Amazon's cloud product is aimed at Android Apple's cloud product will almost certainly ignore Android users because they'll use it to bolster the iPhone/iOS stack (+ enticement to switch to). They're aimed at two different markets.
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The one where you searched from your browser and then opened some small hash file into the client which did the sharing, right? Not unlike the later BitTorrent.
Yeah, everything was browser based, except for the small app that ran on the desktop. We handled all the queues and the download scheduling on the server though -- no need for the client to open anything.
"The 5 GB free storage plan is available to all Amazon.com customers, however further upgrades to the storage plan are currently unavailable in the following countries: Austria , Belgium , Bulgaria , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Slovakia , Slovenia ,…
Maybe this is a European directive and enforced in all of those countries, and they need to figure out how they're going to approach this law.
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Go look at all the complaining from when the iPhone original was announced and came out. It didn't have a number of features that were considered at the time required: The original release of the operating system included Visual Voicemail, multi-touch gestures, HTML email, Safari web browser, threaded text messaging, and YouTube. However, many features like MMS, third-party apps, and copy and paste were not supported…
There's a huge difference between an MVP and cutting features to reach perfection.
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since when does Apple launch minimum viable products? that is the opposite of what Apple does.
Go look at all the complaining from when the iPhone original was announced and came out. It didn't have a number of features that were considered at the time required: The original release of the operating system included Visual Voicemail, multi-touch gestures, HTML email, Safari web browser, threaded text messaging, and YouTube. However, many features like MMS, third-party apps, and copy and paste were not supported…
I wonder if they're doing anything clever to reduce storage size. For example - an MP3/AAC song purchased from the same service has a small unique header (e.g. where your iTunes account name is stored) and then identical music data. I imagine the music companies would have a hissy fit and demand streaming payments if that was the case though.
It doesn't seem like they currently do this, but it would be great if Amazon applied file de-duplication (like Dropbox) to at least music files. If I'm trying to upload a song that Amazon already has on its own servers, it should just use that copy instead of uploading a new copy from my computer.
I'm not sure if having to upload your music before it's de-duplicated makes a legal difference, but I bet it came into play. I have long thought of the possibility of hacking up the dropbox binary to fake hashes of known music I didn't have and get access instantly
Judge Jed S. Rakoff, in the case UMG v. MP3.com, ruled in favor of the record labels against MP3.com and the service on the copyright law provision of "making mechanical copies for commercial use without permission from the copyright owner." Before damage was awarded, MP3.com settled with plaintiff, UMG Recordings, for $53.4 million, in exchange for the latter's permission to use its entire music collection.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/MP3.com#My.MP...
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You can hardly say that Amazon has 'beaten Apple to the punch". Amazon's cloud product is aimed at Android Apple's cloud product will almost certainly ignore Android users because they'll use it to bolster the iPhone/iOS stack (+ enticement to switch to). They're aimed at two different markets.
Why can't Amazon bundle MP3 playback with their iOS Kindle app?