Kevin Littleton

I was in love once with a music streaming service until it fell into the hands of Apple Corporation and sold out for not even that much.

Perhaps you have not heard of lala.com but that is OK because it does not even matter anymore. I wonder why I must tell this tale of sadness but maybe due to the fact that I'm finishing up finals week and floating around in a perpetual state of bliss that I want to get this one thing off my chest. 

lala.com (not capitalized because of their awesomeness) was a service that I fell in love with. There were many reasons as to why I fell so hard but the biggest was probably the fact I had a netbook. lala.com is a music service that lets you buy music for dirt cheap but you can only listen to it when on their website. At 10 cents a song who wouldn't take advantage? We're all connected to the internet 99% of the time anyway so what could be the downfall? The other neat thing was the fact that you could let lala scan a folder on your hardrive and upload all your music to their site so you could listen to it anywhere, on any computer with speakers.

Doesn't this sound good? For someone that uses a netbook most of the and likes to move around a lot it's genius. They even had an iPhone app on the way. 

Apple bought the company simply for the engineers and for a ridiculous price. I couldn't have been more upset. What was to become of my beloved lala.com? Of course I'm sure the iPhone app is now no more. The reason for this being that Apple wants to dig their big toe into the cloud music arena with iTunes. 

I do not want to go to iTunes.com and stream my music. Why? Because I much rather type in lala.com and not be bogged down with iTunes and Quicktime ads. I love the underdog but when the underdog is no more and now a major corporation I get sad, very sad.