Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The icloud Apple should be paying and announced Monday

To mark the opening of the WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) this Monday, June 6 in San Francisco, Steve Jobs is expected to launch not only iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion but also his musical cloud called icloud The new service ... " Apple in the cloud "has a musical vocation. The idea is to provide an online storage space and a "player" with HTML 5 which the user can not only read their music from any computer or mobile device, but can also organize your tracks and create their selections .

A priori, icloud should be highly integrated with the iTunes store. But one wonders if Apple did not intend to make a bridge icloud more universal, incorporating not only the music (and why not video) but also its other services in the cloud "as MobileMe ( email, calendar, photo sharing and security features Find My iPhone).

The Los Angeles Times, access to the service would be free initially (during its beta test) but then paid. Apple plans to charge $ 25 annual subscription. According to various U.S. sources, Apple will pay back 70% of service revenues to labels, 12% for publishers with music rights and retain the remaining 18%.

The WWDC will begin with a "Keynote by Steve Jobs at 19 h 00, French time. So, go start on Monday for our complete reports on the WWDC announcements.

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