Apple To Shut Down Lala On May 31

dirk and a large number of other distressed readers let us know that Apple is shuttering Lala, the music service they bought last December, on May 31. "Apple will transfer any remaining money in a user's account to iTunes, and will credit users (via iTunes) for any web songs that were purchased. It's a real shame, as Lala was a much better music service, offering songs in straight MP3 format. Its web service was innovative and ahead of its time. And it was one of the few places that would let you listen to an entire song to sample it (after one complete listen, you then could only hear a 30-second sample)." Reader Dhandforth adds: "10-cent favorites will now cost 9.9x more. What's worse, a community of music fans (followers and followees) will disappear on May 31. Evil. Sigh."

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Evil Empire

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it just me, or are the number of stories on /. that are about (apple doing something to piss people off) increasing every day?

Re:While I personally didn't use the service...

[sbeckstead]

Yet you continue to whine about just those facts. While decrying the horror of walled gardens you live in what amounts to a walled garden and complain nothing falls over the wall into the past. Pull the dirt over your head guys you're through. Keep your 8 tracks and mp3 players just keep quiet and we'll tolerate your idiosyncrasies.
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