In the latest example of Apple’s worry of competition, the corporate has removed a third-party app from its App Store that permits individuals to access music stored on Amazon’s Cloud Drive.
Amazon’s Cloud Drive could be a direct competitor of Apple’s iCloud service, that stores a range of content — music, books, photos, contacts, calendars, and a lot of — related to a person’s Apple ID account and pushes it to all or any their iOS devices.
While Amazon doesn’t have a Cloud Drive iOS app, development company Interactive Innovative Solutions (IIS) has developed an application, known as aMusic, which will enable iOS device house owners to access Amazon’s service. However, the aMusic app was recently removed attributable to legal problems with the music business, in keeping with a report from Evolver.fm.
Unlike each Apple’s iCloud and Google’s Music Beta services, Amazon’s Cloud Drive doesn’t catalog all the licensed music in a very person’s account. however cataloging is vital to music labels as a result of it allows them to require a cut when individuals upload copyrighted music to their account. Since Amazon isn’t lucrative for the music labels, the labels had no drawback contacting their buddies at Apple to urge any Cloud Drive app or service removed.
Normally, i might simply blame the music labels for this mess, however Apple is additionally delaying an update to IIS’ Google Music Beta app, gMusic. “I submitted it two weeks ago. each different update I even have submitted at intervals the two weeks has been approved in beneath eight hours. thus undecided what the deal is,” said IIS’ James Clancey in a very statement to Evolver.fm.
I can’t entirely blame Apple for its behavior, since it clearly has no incentive to permit its customers to use a competitor’s music service like Music Beta or Cloud Drive on iOS devices. Doing thus would provide individuals a reason to not register for Apple’s iTunes Match — a $25-per-year music service that has legal access to any songs currently in a very user’s iTunes music library.
At identical time, it's obtaining slightly ridiculous for Apple to stay removing all potential competitors within the streaming media front out of worry that it'd take business away. Yesterday, I reported on the ridiculous lengths Apple has gone to to prevent iOS customers from viewing streaming video service Hulu on a tv set.
I highly doubt Apple’s hardcore fan base goes to prevent using Apple services simply because there are competitors obtainable. maybe a number of them can, however not enough to create a big impact on business selections.
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