On Digital Media

On Digital Media 127: The Cloud Wars

In this episode, John Federico (@gadgetboy), Chia-Lin Simmons (@chialinsimmons), Steve Hatch (@shatch) and Craig Calder (@ccalder) discuss:

• Best Buy’s Music Cloud. (3 of us predict FAIL - but who’s the optimist?)
• Best Buy’s Music Cloud vs. Apple’s iCloud with iTunes Match vs. Amazon’s Cloud Drive vs. Google Music. Fight!
• Mobile Social Gaming is HOT! HOT! HOT!
• PopCap games acquired for $1 Billion - but by whom?
• The most successful mobile social gaming company you never heard of
• First self-published Kindle author hits the 1 million mark
• Is local media storage a thing of the past?
• Netflix Streaming goes down, down, down
• iPhone on Verizon has slowed the sale of Android phones in the US
• Next Apple iPhone to coincide with iOS 5. Our wallets are already open.

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