More Lala Speculation
By Harry McCracken | Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 8:39 am
Demented genius entrepreneur Michael Robertson thinks that Apple bought Lala to help it quickly offer a service that puts iTunes users’ existing music collections in the cloud. Makes sense that he’d think that makes sense: He founded MP3.com, which offered a similar service almost exactly a decade ago. (It was wonderful–and the music companies successfully sued it out of business almost immediately.)
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January 19th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Of course, that aspect of the Lala service is almost identical to the MP3.com music locker, only this time with the label’s blessing. I use this service and I’m deeply addicted to having full access to my iTunes library at work and whenever I travel. Having it on my iPhone as well would be nirvana.