Via: paidContent Apple’s music and app stores straddle paid content’s demographic fault line. Apps, a fundamentally interactive experience, are tailor-made for the digital natives, whereas the static 99-cent music download remains wedded to a bygone era. Of course, the kids still like music, but the current digital-music product doesn’t compel them to part with their [...]

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Via: paidContent Rdio, the much hyped stealth music service from the founders of Kazaa and Skype, has chosen the iPhone as its launchpad, a good a place as any. This week, the heavily-anticipated music startup suddenly surfaced on the App Store, reachable only to private beta testers. That club appears quite small and restricted at [...]

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Via: N.Y. Times SAN FRANCISCO — With its deal this month to buy the Web music service Lala, Apple may be pointing the way to the future of music. In this future, the digital music files on people’s computers could join vinyl records, cassette tapes and CDs in the dusty vault of fading music formats. [...]

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Via: paidContent CNET reports Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) wants to “obtain some of Lala’s payment and fulfillment systems” – but that would be pretty underwhelming. With MySpace having taken iLike and imeem off the market, a more interesting idea is that Apple will use Lala to inject some remotely hosted goodness in to iTunes. Apple has [...]

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