Apple Buys Lala Music Streaming, But Why?

ScuttleMonkey — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:34:00 +0000

Apple has snapped up music streaming biz Lala in what many initially thought to be a move to step beyond the strict download market of iTunes. On closer inspection it seems that Lala was a somewhat less-than-ideal target and Apple may just be gunning for ready-made engineering talent. "On balance, the purchase appears to give Apple the chance to bring in engineers that will be useful now, and could be even more so if it chooses to enter streaming or subscription services. But, for the moment, there's nothing about the purchase that seems to provide the company with any key technologies it was missing in terms of diving into markets. Until another company demonstrates that there's money to be made (or iPods to be sold) through streaming, there's no reason to think that a move of this sort is immanent."

iPhone 3.1 Spotted In Field Testing

CmdrTaco — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:03:00 +0000

kai_hiwatari writes "Digitizor reports that the next generation of the iPhone was spotted in the analytics log of an iPhone app called iBart. The device, it seems, was identified as iPhone 3.1 in the log. When iPhone 2.1 was spotted, it was followed by iPhone 3G."

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Apple Buys Lala Music Streaming, But Why?

iPhone 3.1 Spotted In Field Testing