Sony verbally pees on Steve Jobs’ rug by announcing plans for a cloud-based music service

Sony verbally pees on Steve Jobs' rug by announcing plans for a cloud-based music service

A mere 6,000 years after God Almighty announced the first cloud-based service (rain), Sony is honing in on the act with their recent announcement of a decidedly more metaphorical “cloud-based music-streaming service.” Sony excited a tiny, nerdy portion of the world recently when it let loose its plans to launch a PlayStation 3-based music cloud service. This service will allow PS3 users to stream their favorite songs and what-have-you from an online library for a nominal fee.

At this point, you may be asking yourself, “wait, what about Apple’s cloud-based music service that my Steve Jobs-obsessed IT friend at work assures me is coming back soon?” Well, sucks to your friend’s ass-mar, because Sony has said that it plans, like Google, to launch its service by the end of this year, with plans to eventually expand that service to include all handheld Sony devices that have a Wi-Fi connection.

See? Unlike your bearded, deadbeat, pot-smoking pals at Apple, those clean-cut Johnny Unitas fans at Sony actually have plans for the future… not to mention music label interests, which might make it a little easier for them to brew up a happy little cumulus music cloud faster than Apple can. So let’s just forget about those losers at Apple and get all of those “handheld Sony devices” that we all own ready for… oh, wait.

• Sony: http://www.sony.com

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