ITunes in the Cloud Is Still MIA, May Stay That Way

August 3, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

Ever since Apple bought Lala in December, tech prognosticators have told us that an “iTunes in the cloud,” featuring all the streaming music you could dream of, was just around the corner. But it has yet to show up, even though Lala has gone away. And it doesn’t seem to be coming any time soon, CNET’s Greg Sandoval reminds us–Apple doesn’t have deals with the labels and doesn’t seem to be pushing hard for them (but Google seems keen on launching its own service). So what is Apple up to? One clue: The Lala team is now reportedly working on a video project.

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http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/SFW7E7NUGWVLA3TAUINDXYEMK4 S.

It will be here when the billion dollar server farm comes online at the end of the year….
Anonymous

Apple said right away they bought LaLa for the team.

When I think of “iTunes in the cloud” I don’t think about streaming audio, I think about enabling an iPad or iPhone user to go without a PC. Giving them a way to backup and sync their mobile device with a server instead of a PC.
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/ PKafka

Actually, Apple never said squat about Lala. Anyway, best I can tell, they made an initial push to do a music/cloud thing after the lala acquisition, and since then have moved on.