Apple’s iCloud service not launching in U.K. until 2012

By on Jun 10, 2011 at 8:58 AM
mobile June 10, 2011

Apple’s new iCloud service — announced during Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote on Monday — will not launch in the United Kingdom until at least the first quarter of 2012. A representative from the Performing Right Society (PRS), an association of songwriters, music publishers, and composers in the United Kingdom told The Telegraph that negotiations with Apple are still at a “very early stage.”

The licensing team at the PRS have started talks with Apple, but are a long way off from any deals being signed … It is very much the early stages of the negotiations and is similar to the launch of iTunes – which began in the US and took a while to roll out to other countries

iCloud will launch in tandem with iOS 5 in the United States this fall.

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  • http://twitter.com/mistercarter7 Mike Gonzalez

    iCloud will launch this fall everywhere, the only part of iCloud which will take a bit longer to launch is iTunes Match for obvious reasons…

    • Kelly

      I hope you’re right. :o )

  • Jewiogwegi

    for obvious reasons?
    you mean because apple is -fail- ?
    #agreed

    • http://twitter.com/mistercarter7 Mike Gonzalez

      because they have to sign deals with every major music label?! something Google cant pull off

      • Jayhammy

        I”m not sure that Google can’t pull it off; I think it’s more that they don’t CARE to pull it off. Google has a different approach. The music you own is yours. If it’s already DRM-free, then there’s no need to involve the labels. I agree, and apparently Amazon does as well with their own cloud service.
        One big thing for me that Google and Amazon have over iTunes/Cloud: the fact that you can actually STREAM your music to your device. You don’t have to download it. Funny how Jobs makes fun of Google/Amazon for taking “weeks to upload” your entire library to the cloud while you don’t have to with iTunes Match. BUT, you have to DOWNLOAD it to your device to play it AND take up precious storage space. IMHO: this is a big FAIL on iTunes/Cloud.

      • Anonymous

        And streaming eats data. Precious data.

  • Booboolala2000

    Lol.

  • Rui

    Wrong bgr, wrong

  • Anonymous

    This article is very misleading. Only iTunes in the cloud and iTunes match will not launch this fall. All other iCloud services will go live at the same time as the US.

    This is poor reporting, please amend the article.

    • Anonymous

      Yes, everywhere else that I’ve read this, they make sure to include this bit of detail.

  • http://twitter.com/RonaldKunibert Ronald Kunibert

    Surely this article refers to iTunes Match, not iCloud? Also, the title presents this as fact, when it is in fact, not a fact. Fact.

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