I recently posted a blog discussing HP’s plans to include a free universal O/S on future hardware such as the eagerly anticipated HP touch pad (available via Applied Technologies as of June 19th!). Reports now claim that HP is looking at the possibility of upping the ante with a cloud based music streaming service. This hear say has come largely on the back of an article posted by the US music website Billboard which claims that the manufacturer is in advanced talks with a number of the big hitting record labels in a quest to design a service that would rival Apple’s iCloud offering.
Unfortunately for customers this service will not be in place for the July 1st launch of the touch pad and would be launched as a separate offering available to all HP devices.
In my opinion, yes, HP would be jumping into a very competitive market taking on the likes of Amazon, Apple and Google but, to put a tablet in the running to compete with the world conquering iPad without having a service like this in place could be considered somewhat naive.
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