Can Apple iCloud Be Competition For Netflix?
Everyone is getting into cloud storage these days. From Amazon to Google, and now Apple, who are due to announce the new storage concept – iCloud. When Apple have the cloud storage set-up and filled full of movies and TV shows, will they become a rival to streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu?
Apple iCloud for music and movies?
The iCloud service is due for release Monday at the WWDC 2011. The service will be available for Mac OS X Lion, iPhone and iPad and is expected to not only store users music, but also movies a’la Amazon and Netflix.
Although many think the cloud will be used for just music storage, CNET have been saying that “sources close to the negotiations” have revealed that Apple are trying to “convince some of the major Hollywood film studios to issue licenses that would enable Apple to store its customers’ movies on the company’s servers.”
The cloud concept, from Amazon and Google at least, is that users upload songs to the virtual cloud servers. That same music can then be streamed to users smartphones, computer or any capable connected device.
Apple of course do things differently. Their service will thanks to licensing agreements, allow a users library to be mirrored on the cloud. So no manual uploading, whatever is yours can be accessed from the cloud servers.
If this is how the cloud works, then it will be a definite threat to Netflix and will give users content on a variety of devices anywhere they happen to be.
Further announcments will come on Monday, when Steven Jobs gives the keynote speech.
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