Hot on the heels of rumors that Google is preparing to challenge Apple's iTunes service with a digital music store of its own, Amazon has announced that it's entering the market with a cloud-based music service of its own.
"Managing a digital music collection is a bit of a mess," Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos said in an open letter to customers on the Amazon Website on Monday. "It's possible to buy music from your phone, but then it might get stuck there. It's possible to buy music from your work computer, but then you have to remember to transfer it to your home computer…What's more, if you're not regularly backing up your music collection, you can lose it with a disk drive crash."
Amazon then purports to have found a solution with its new services: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/223567/
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"Managing a digital music collection is a bit of a mess," Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos said in an open letter to customers on the Amazon Website on Monday. "It's possible to buy music from your phone, but then it might get stuck there. It's possible to buy music from your work computer, but then you have to remember to transfer it to your home computer…What's more, if you're not regularly backing up your music collection, you can lose it with a disk drive crash."
Amazon then purports to have found a solution with its new services: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/223567/
