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August 30, 2011 12:51 pm GMT

With iTunes In The Cloud, Apple Under-Promises And Over-Delivers

matchiosAs the summer winds down and we near the fall, we know two things are for sure about to enter existence in the world of Apple: iOS 5 and iCloud. Given that both offer third-party developers various opportunities, both are in the process of being tested by that community. And that means things are starting to leak out. Tonight brought perhaps the biggest surpriserevelationyet: iTunes in the Cloud will support streaming as well as downloading of music.Now, before everyone works themselves into a tizzy yelling "FIRST!!!", yes, it's true that other music services have offered cloud-based streaming before " notably both Google Music Beta and Amazon Cloud Player this past summer. But neither of those is iTunes, the largest music retailer on the planet (online or "offline"). And there are plenty of other services that are streaming-only. It now seems certain that this fall, iTunes will offer both cloud downloading and cloud streaming.

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