http://technologizer.com/2009/10/23/lala-for-iphone-soon-hopefully/ Reviews, News, and Opinion About Personal Technology by Harry McCracken & Friends Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:53:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://technologizer.com/2009/10/23/lala-for-iphone-soon-hopefully/comment-page-1/#comment-31108 Apple May Buy Lala? That Could be Very, Very Good. Or Very, Very Bad | Technologizer Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:33:12 +0000 http://technologizer.com/?p=18893#comment-31108 [...] The company has an oddball history that includes a period as a CD-swapping service and a foray into radio, but for over a year, it’s focused on pretty much being what iTunes might be if it were an entirely Web-based service. You can buy streaming-only songs for a dime apiece, but the first listen to any song is free. Like the late, lamented original MP3.com, Lala replicates your music collection on its servers so you can listen to it anywhere–but Lala does so much more easily…and it does so legally. It wraps everything up in a user interface that looks like iTunes’ browser-based twin brother, and adds hooks to services such as Facebook and Google. [...] [...] The company has an oddball history that includes a period as a CD-swapping service and a foray into radio, but for over a year, it’s focused on pretty much being what iTunes might be if it were an entirely Web-based service. You can buy streaming-only songs for a dime apiece, but the first listen to any song is free. Like the late, lamented original MP3.com, Lala replicates your music collection on its servers so you can listen to it anywhere–but Lala does so much more easily…and it does so legally. It wraps everything up in a user interface that looks like iTunes’ browser-based twin brother, and adds hooks to services such as Facebook and Google. [...]

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