Apple to dominate the digital music market - Computers - Computer Games

It is understood, April 17, 2011, Sony's Playstation site hit hacking, hacking into Sony's San Diego in the United States the data server to steal the Sony PS3 and music, animation, user login cloud service network Qriocity personal information, including name , address, date of birth, login name and password, the user up to 7700 people affected, involving 57 countries and regions.Last year, cloud computing cloud computing security alliance lists the seven deadly sins: data loss / leakage, sharing technical loopholes, traitor, unsafe application program interface, there is no proper use of cloud computing, unknown risks.

Sony leaks the real reason is unknown, but some cloud computing services escape the dry side of the security system.U.S. launch of Apple's online storage cloud service iCloud, which concern the cloud iTunes Match music to digital music market is expected to bring new changes.In San Francisco at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, is on sick leave Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced himself on stage iCloud, and called it Apple's "next great vision." IOS the use of Apple in the user mobile device to charge the system, the system will automatically document the user to purchase music, applications, photo albums, and system settings for cloud backup, and then automatically pushed to all device users.

The user Apple's smart phones, tablet PCs and desktop machines can simultaneously access the content. Each user can now get 5G of free storage space to purchase music from Apple, applications, and e-books do not take up free space, mass cloud storage fee program will be launched this fall.Jobs also introduced iTunes Match, The $ 24.99 per year for the service will scan the user's hard drive storage of music, as long as the content, and Apple's online music store songs or songs that match with record labels authentication, the user anywhere, anytime to any Apple devices can listen to through the Apple store in the cloud server, music, upload and save a backup of the trouble.

Analysts believe that Apple is expected to make from the three major reasons for the current "misty" music cloud services market, "Sudden Impact" and become the market leader. First of all, Apple and the four major record companies reached a licensing agreement, only the server in the cloud will keep a copy of each song, solve the user for a long time to upload and save server repeated troubles, while main rival Apple Amazon Thomson and Google have not done. Second, Apple's free and charging scheme more attractive. 6 Jobs In particular, the charges 25 dollars per year program will not only first-class service quality, and cheaper than Amazon, but so far none of Google's cloud services to their pricing. Third, Apple is from the purchase, cloud storage to the one-stop services streaming media player. The use of Google's users not only can not buy new songs, you also need to spend a long time to upload, so-called music actually become a big cloud services cloud storage capaci ty hard drive.

Some industry sources, Apple's iTunes online music store from its inception in 2003, has sold about 15 billion songs, a strong user base for Apple's iTunes Match is expected to become the next major growth point of profit; and cloud storage services will be the user's various computing devices are integrated together, will attract users to buy smart phones, tablet PCs, desktop computers and music players and other Apple products, lure users to collect their "Apple family."Apple also demonstrated a code-named "lion" in the latest version of the Mac operating system, ebook reader for sale desktop and mobile device operating systems iOS5. The latter will be this fall. Analysis of the industry, this means that Apple will likely introduce its next-generation iPhone.

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