Amazon has taken another step at reducing Apple’s hold over on-device music sales, today announcing the launch of its HTML5 MP3 web store specifically for iPhone and iPod touch, offering 22 million tracks via a specially formatted mobile website.
This is a great step for Amazon.com to compete with Apple’s iTunes Music Store! When it comes to purchasing music, I tend to use Amazon. They have better prices and a kick-ass cloud system that puts iTunes Match to shame. I say this since I got in on an unlimited music storage deal for about $20!
Now that Amazon has the same features as iTunes Match, music match for better quality MP3′s and streaming playback via it’s cloud player app. They have also added a feature that if you buy a CD from them, if that album supports the feature, will put all the MP3′s for that album in your cloud storage. Purchased MP3′s don’t count against limited accounts like iTunes Match.
January 17th, 2013 at 9:33 pm
I’m not sure why but this site is loading extremely slow for me. Is anyone else having this issue or is it a problem on my end? I’ll check back
later and see if the problem still exists.
January 17th, 2013 at 9:51 pm
I haven’t seen any issues with speed at all. I purchased a couple of freebies and the site ran really smoothly. Of course I was using my iPhone 5 so that might be the reason for my speedy access.
They may just be having issues with certain servers.