Amazon offers consumers a cubby in the cloud
Amazon's new set of cloud products targets consumers, giving them a spot in the cloud to save data like music, videos and documents. Once saved on Amazon's servers, music data can then be streamed back to users over the Web via Amazon's new Cloud Player for Web. Amazon's also released a player app for Android. iOS, however, is left out of the loop.
Amazon recently announced a triple-play entry into the cloud-based music storage field.
The online retail giant's trifecta consists of Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Player for Web and Amazon Cloud Player for Android.
These three services let customers store music in the cloud and play it on any Mac, PC or Android mobile device.
Subscribers can upload their existing music libraries to Amazon Cloud Drive and can save any new Amazon MP3 purchases directly to the Amazon Cloud Drive for free.
"Amazon's new service puts new pressure on Apple to give iTunes and the iTunes Store an overhaul," Susan Kevorkian, a research director at IDC, told the E-Commerce Times.
Amazon and Apple did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
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