On Tuesday, apple introduced a new iCloud service, make the user through its iTunes store to buy media content, and use DuoZhong apple devices to use these media. This service will be on October 12,, as a free software upgrade service to launch, and can be in all apple user equipment automatic synchronization iTunes store to buy from the pictures, documents and other digital content. For example, if a user through the iPhone or iPod Touch from the iTunes store bought a song, then the song will automatically downloaded to the Mac computer users.
Apple said the service can be "will user information storage, and push forward to seamless all equipment". Apple also introduced a iTunes Match service, called allows users to their iTunes store for not from the music store down every year, the cost of $24.99.
Amazon Fire tablet computer
At the same time, amazon Thursday launched a Fire tablet computer user through amazon.com, encouraged to purchase, cloud storage service to expand the user base. If Fire tablet computer users through amazon.com, music and other buying an ebook content, then amazon will provide free remote store services.
Fire in the amazon users also can cloud services in the amazon to buy the content of the storage, but in these content reach 5 GB will need to pay for this, after capacity equal to about 1000 songs, 2000 images, or 20 minutes of hd video. 20 GB storage price from $20 each year, to 1000 GB $1000 a year.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos) said on Thursday, this kind of tablet computer can enjoy a network, movies, application, books and games all all together is a good product service, users will like.
Apple and amazon scorer
On the consumption side, digital media control apple and amazon than other competitors are more advantage.
Amazon is a global Internet field sales of the highest retailers. The company has large construction server to deal with its online store the data obtained. Amazon's network service (Web Services) is the world's largest on-demand storage space rental service, and based on this service development of technology will be applied to support the Fire of the tablet PC part function. Amazon's Kindle e-book reader in digital media for the equipment and ebook sales and provide a foundation.
At the same time, apple's popular consumer electronics to ensure that the relevant content also popular. Apple said on Tuesday, at present the whole world has more than 25 million of its iOS devices carrying mobile operating system. Another apple's iTunes store is the world's largest music retailers. Apple also established in north Carolina huge server.
Apple music service does not require the clouds from iTunes users to upload store download songs, which is regarded as the amazon and Google and the advantage of the competition.
Research institutions Constellation Research chief executive Ray king (Ray Wang) said, Google and Microsoft and other companies have also entered the consumption and digital media sector, but not any one company like apple and amazon that will integrate the software and hardware.
He said, widely speaking, these devices and services is likely to change the past people shopping, advertising and the way of obtaining information. He said: "this is what we read information, consumer information and share information way."
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