The cloud music service of Amazon has finally equaled Apple's by incorporating a function similar iCloud iTunes Match, that is, the option to scan and synchronize the music files of its users and then play them in streaming. This new service joins Cloud Player.
A month ago Amazon obtained licenses with many music distributors among which were the four largest record companies in the world to be able to offer this service. However, Amazon, the largest online sales portal in the world, made it official yesterday in a press release. In this way, Cloud Player users no longer have to manually add, one by one, each song they want to their cloud service.
The price of this service will be $ 24,99 annually. This is exactly the same price as Apple's identical service. After hiring, Amazon will scan the user's hard drive and compare the music found there with the more than 20 million songs that the company has on its servers and upload them to the user's cloud. Then with any device with an internet connection, even if it's Android or Apple, may stream those files. No matter where the songs come from, they can even come from iTunes, which will be saved and played by Cloud Player.
For those $ 25 you can save up to 250.000 songs, this is ten times than in iTunes Match. In addition, Amazon will offer a free by which users can save all songs purchased on your platform and 250 songs obtained in any other way.
Amazon is subjecting to a brutal marking to Apple. I already try to compete in 2011 with the service Cloud drive that allowed digital content to be stored on its servers. The problem was that the music and film companies said it was close to illegality and protested. CloudPlayer it allowed to upload and play music but it was a bit arduous. Now with this new element of Cloud Player, which has the licenses of the companies, the functionalities that Apple made available to its customers have been equaled and surpassed.
Part of this marking was the launch of Kindle Fire, which continues with the possible arrival of Kindle Fire 2, which took over a space in the tablet market that until then was the iPad and which further opened the door to Amazon content compared to Apple. Their applications for Apple and Android devices they make it much easier for their competitors' devices to access them.
Ultimately, Amazon wants to bet big on this game and compete with Apple on all fronts.
Source: EuropaPress