With Apple’s iTunes announcement just around the corner, TechCrunch weighs in on the notion of Apple killing off the MP3 completely, and why it makes more sense than you probably think. Think about it. Every song ever (deals with record labels permitting, of course), right there on your iPhone, your iPad, your Apple TV, your MacBook, on-demand and always at the ready. If you can access the Internet (“the Cloud”), then you can listen to your tunes. And just like that, your MP3s are worthless. Why would you maintain a giant collection of hard drive-eating MP3 and AAC (the file format iTunes uses) files when you can access the same songs from a handy app? Let’s see… gigabytes upon gigabytes of music files versus a single app that can stream any song with the touch of a button. Well, the[...]
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