CALIFORNIA - Amazon Cloud Player, cloud-based music service from Amazon, further strengthening competition in launching a similar service with unlimited music storage and an application for the iPad.
As quoted by Mashable, Thursday (07/07/2011), Amazon's new offering is impacting on service changes in the Amazon Cloud Drive Player. For example, if a user issued a $ 20 deposit for one year, then he will still get 20 GB of storage space.
This applies to all services in the Amazon Cloud Cloud Drive Player. Even so, the Amazon said that the agreement will apply only temporary. Users are not paid from the service still will get 5 GB of storage space.
In addition, Amazon also announced that all MP3 purchases through their site will be released for free.
Steps taken by the Amazon is clearly a blow to Google and Apple for similar services. Google Music has a storage limit of up 20 thousand songs, while Amazon does not have limits. While Apple does not offer iCloud of uploading, however they have an iTunes Match feature that can find high-quality copies of music from the music libraries of users.
In addition to unlimited music storage service in the cloud, Amazon also announced that they have optimize Cloud Player to iPad, which allows users to access their music library through the Apple tablet.