Amazon has just unveiled Cloud Player, a new service that stores your music collection online and makes it accessible from any computer in the world. As I read on the Amazon sales page, “Cloud Player comes in two varieties: Web and Android,” I wondered whether there was an Amazon Cloud Player for iPhone. Nope. Amazon Cloud Player for iPhone is nonexistent.
Why is Amazon Cloud Player Not on iPhone?
A couple of theories come to mind:
- Amazon is a direct competitor to Apple with its MP3 store that competes with iTunes.
- Amazon is snubbing Apple after they imposed a 30 percent subscription fee in the App Store on all publishers (i.e. Kindle).
Nevertheless, if Amazon does not unveil a Cloud Player for iPhone, they will be missing out on a sizeable market which iOS users represent. I, for one, would love to see Amazon Cloud Player on iPhone. What about you?
FYI, the amazon cloud downloader does save to iTunes, so while it’s a bit cumbersome (buy mp3 from Amazon, download to iTunes, sync to iPhone) it’s still possible. I prefer this to iTunes because if my music files get deleted/damaged, I can just re-download from Amazon. This isn’t possible on iTunes (well, it’s possible to do once, I have heard, but at Apple’s discretion, ugh!)
YES, bring on the cloud player for iphone and blackberry.
I am wondering what is the difference between Amazon Cloud and mobile me or any of the other advertised cloud commercials I see?
@itasara
Amazon Cloud will let you store your music collection on Amazon and access it through the Cloud Player online and on Android devices. Apple is said to be launching a new MobileMe very soon that will let you store all your iTunes music in the cloud and play it from any device: http://www.gizmocrave.com/5563-apple-mobileme-to-get-cloud-based-music-locker/