NYT Speculatiions on Apple’s LaLa Purchase [8:43 am]
With Apple Purchase of Lala, Music Business Heads into the Virtual World
In this future, the digital music files on people’s computers could join vinyl records, cassette tapes and CDs in the dusty vault of fading music formats.
Instead, music fans will use their always-online computers and smartphones to visit a vast Internet jukebox, where Gregorian chants, Lady Gaga tracks and the several centuries of music in between are instantly available.
For a small but growing cadre of music lovers, the vision is not that outlandish. [...]
