wraggster
April 18th, 2011, 12:47
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/04/4-16-2011-hp-music-store.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/16/hp-may-bless-webos-with-cloud-syncing-music-store/)
Rumor has it that HP (http://www.engadget.com/tag/hp) is preparing to enter the cloud-based music storage fray. A reader at PreCentralsent in what purports to be a confidential PowerPoint presentation indicating the TouchPad will launch with an HP-branded music and movie store, as well as a smart syncing service that caches frequently accessed media for local playback. This may very well be the "Music Synergy (http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/10/the-engadget-interview-jon-rubinstein-and-steven-mcarthur-talk/)" that SVP Steven McArthur mentioned to us. Amazon has already launched such an app (http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/29/amazon-cloud-player-goes-live-streams-music-on-your-computer-an/) and it's all but official (http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/05/googles-new-cloud-based-android-music-app-leaks-out/) that Google is planning the same thing, so it only makes sense that the company would want to imbue webOS (http://www.engadget.com/tag/webos) with similar powers. We can't verify these claims ourselves and the slide above is clearly a wonky Photoshop job, but it's would hardly be surprising after snatching up (http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/hp-buys-melodeo-brings-nutsie-music-streaming-service-into-the/) Melodeo and the streaming music service Nutsie. And, while webOS and Android are working to banish the quaint ritual of plugging your cellphone into a computer, we can only imagine what the Lala team is up to (http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/03/apples-lala-music-team-working-on-video-streaming-service-for-2/) -- maybe Jobs has them washing his turtlenecks.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/16/hp-may-bless-webos-with-cloud-syncing-music-store/
Rumor has it that HP (http://www.engadget.com/tag/hp) is preparing to enter the cloud-based music storage fray. A reader at PreCentralsent in what purports to be a confidential PowerPoint presentation indicating the TouchPad will launch with an HP-branded music and movie store, as well as a smart syncing service that caches frequently accessed media for local playback. This may very well be the "Music Synergy (http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/10/the-engadget-interview-jon-rubinstein-and-steven-mcarthur-talk/)" that SVP Steven McArthur mentioned to us. Amazon has already launched such an app (http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/29/amazon-cloud-player-goes-live-streams-music-on-your-computer-an/) and it's all but official (http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/05/googles-new-cloud-based-android-music-app-leaks-out/) that Google is planning the same thing, so it only makes sense that the company would want to imbue webOS (http://www.engadget.com/tag/webos) with similar powers. We can't verify these claims ourselves and the slide above is clearly a wonky Photoshop job, but it's would hardly be surprising after snatching up (http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/23/hp-buys-melodeo-brings-nutsie-music-streaming-service-into-the/) Melodeo and the streaming music service Nutsie. And, while webOS and Android are working to banish the quaint ritual of plugging your cellphone into a computer, we can only imagine what the Lala team is up to (http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/03/apples-lala-music-team-working-on-video-streaming-service-for-2/) -- maybe Jobs has them washing his turtlenecks.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/16/hp-may-bless-webos-with-cloud-syncing-music-store/