MacDailyNews Take: That would be Greg and a handful of other anti-Apple ultra-geeks, many of whom seem to work at CNET. There’s no “disappointment;” even we have the patience to wait until Apple is done cooking this one up.
Sandoval continues, “Music industry sources told CNET this week Apple has informed label managers that a streaming music service is unlikely to be ready before the third quarter.”
MacDailyNews Take: There are mutliple ways to report anything. For example: “Music industry sources told CNET this week Apple has informed label managers that a streaming music service is coming by third quarter 2010.” There: all “disappointment,” invented and imagined, dissipated. Poof!
Sandoval continues, “It will be a disappointment for iTunes fans who have been speculating as to when Apple might use music site Lala–which Apple acquired in December–for its streaming expertise to launch a cloud-based music service… Some had hoped such a service might arrive when Apple unveiled the iPad tablet in January, but it was a no-show… Besides a later-than-hoped-for start to Apple’s streaming, all of this also means that music–which has typically played an important role in most of Apple’s culture-changing devices–will be bumped to the sidelines with the iPad.”
MacDailyNews Take: “Some?” Seriously, Greg? “Later-than-hoped-for” by whom, exactly? “Bumped to the sidelines?” Sandoval and CNET must think very, very little of their readers.
Full load of horseshit, headlined “No cloud music for iPad’s launch” – Think Before You Click™ – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Greg’s feverish spin is perfect for anyone dizzy enough to bother reading CNET.
exciting times
viva apple
viva steve jobs !!!
Spread Apple FUD Just Before A New Product Launch
Typical
Wait a second, let me get this right. Apple, which already has the iTunes music store, and has had for many years, acquires a music-streaming business in December 2009. And these guys were hoping it would be fully integrated and released one month later, in January 2010? Failing that, they were expecting the same within three months later, in April 2010? Obviously, they have no understanding of software project planning & execution. You just can’t take two big chunks of software, slap them together, and release it as fast as possible while still getting the seamless integration that Steve Jobs, the rest of Apple, and Apple’s customers demand.
Has CNET demanded even as much from Google or (shudder) Microsoft with their acquisitions? What a bunch of maroons.
@KJW:
Where you expecting anything less from CNET? I hope not. But, like you said, these folks are a bunch of maroons. Where’s bugs when you needed him?
Cnet has a rabid Apple hate going, everyone who is sensible knows this.
Cohost of one of their popular podcasts slams Apple constantly, called the iPhone a turd but gives microsoft a pass.
Why does anyone trust anything they say about Apple?
Saturday is nigh the tide is high – iTunes is ready and iPad will fly.
I love this line:
“Some had hoped such a service might arrive when Apple unveiled the iPad tablet in January, but it was a no-show.”
It’s the typical source known as “some”. Fox News uses “some” all the time. Usually the “some” people they are referring to are the people they just speculate probably exist somewhere in the world. They don’t cite actual sources or speak to actual people.
See I can do it too, watch:
Some speculate that CNET could be closed down at any time.
It’s really easy.
CNET- very disappointing.
If we filmed a short of what this article compares to, it would be the guy stepping out into a crosswalk just a second before a bus passing by at 60 miles an hour.
Disappointing CNET!
@ Kevin J Weise
“You just can’t take two big chunks of software, slap them together, and release it as fast as possible”
Don’t tell Microsoft that.
Disappointing? Hell yeah. I mean, it’s so difficult to sync your music with an iPhone/iPod. And iPad will be no easier. You might as well slit your wrists now.
@ Kevin J. Weise
Microsoft does shit like that all the time! It’s always a winner!, Rock Solid!, Friendly!, Great UI and is as useable a fully armed neutron weapon.
@ Macromancer – Too bad we can’t tag CNET’s article with the Wikipedia “weasel words” tag – their use of “some” in that context does indeed seem to be intentionally misleading.
CNET writers are so out if touch with normal people. Their audience is IT geeks (which I am one of) and they look at everything from a perspective of the technology under the hood and not the overall user experience. I would never send any non-IT person a link to an article on CNET, being doing so would be an endorsement of being out of touch.
C|Net = SuckNet
Some people find CNET’s reporting about Apple biased, or at least off the mark, a good deal of the time. CNET should itself be bumped to the sidelines.
Wow, didn’t know anyone had been talking about it, until Cnet made it up!
Regardless. I don’t want my music or videos to be in Apples hands to control. If Apples servers go down, what do you do then? I’m sure there will be a backup , but still?? Not only in Apples part but in ones part. Say u’re network or internet service goes down, how do you sync?
I prefer to have my music on my computer, while being uncontrolled and unsupervised. I don’t need a big brother over my shoulder.
To me, cloud would work great as a backup solution, not permanent.
Apple has gotten in trouble trying to start many new things all at the same time in the past. There are many new things starting this weekend. (Think iPad here.) I would rather they warm up their BILLION DOLLAR SERVER FARM this month with all the new load that start something that is not required now.
I know a lot of people and I don’t know anyone who is waiting for streaming music from Apple’s Cloud.
Perhaps CNET was the only one.
I stream music from my iPod to my ears. Works great for me!
I’m disappointed…
In CNET.
The really interesting thing is that they were once relevant, thought provoking and on top of what was news and meaningful. Those days are long behind them. And they know it. There are so many better choices out there now. CNET is really a why bother.
Frigtard. If Sandoval had done his homework, he could have easily found recent aerial photos on the Web showing the Apple data center still under construction (but very far along), and only in the past week did Apple post employment ads for the data center.
Typical CNet FUD.
I think it’s “negatively”
@silverwarloc
a bunch of “maroons”? Is that anything like morons?
I haven’t cared when this “cloud based iTunes” will happen… before this article. Now there’s interest in this “cloud based iTunes” welling in me when before there was none. Their negative slanted article just beefed up interest in Apples cloud computing division no matter what they were trying to pull. (I wouldn’t pull any timeline from this source.)