Lights Off For Lala

Apple is shutting down on May 31 Lala, the streaming music service provider it just acquired last December. This is no new story. We’ve seen start-up acts get big, get acquired by bigger companies and are eventually dumped. The reason could either be of one of these – 1) the big company wants to get rid of new players and 2) the big company needs the smaller company’s service or product and just improves it to gain more revenue. Which of these could be Apple’s reason? Rumors are the Cupertino company will add streaming service to the iTunes to enable users to stream their purchased content to multiple play-out devices of their choice. Whether this is true or not, Lala will surely be missed by its long-time loyal users.

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