Apple has announced it will be shutting down its online music service Lala on May 31.
If you try to join Lala.com as a new users you'll be presented with a message "Lala is shutting down. The Lala Service will be shut down May 31, 2010. Unfortunately, we are no longer accepting new members." If you're a member you can continue to use the service until the end of the month. If you have credits at Lala they will automatically become iTunes credits.
Lala was an online music marketplace of sorts. You could download songs or albums, you could upload your own music and create a playlist to share with your friends and you could stream music from the site. Google even included Lala in some of the results so you could stream a song in your search results. On December 4th, 2009 Apple bought Lala for around $80M.
TechCrunch believes that Apple is finally ready to roll out their iTunes in the cloud service but they may delay the launch of their new service until June 7 at the World Wide Developers Conference.
Comments (35)
Reply"...You could be songs or albums"? I can be a song or album...Hmmm which would I be? Probably Dave Matthews - Crash Into Me...
Didn't even know this site existed!
I'm still hoping for an iTunes Subscription service - would really compliment the iPhone.
bought for competition and then they killed it. dead.
Or they're using the technologies and talent for a future iTunes project?
I really liked Lala, its a shame. **** you Apple.
Their tech wasn't unique, their licensing was. I hope someone else picks up their model.
That's funny, I just started using it last night too.
Really?? ..... I am afraid ..... Never heard of this site.
never really heard of it tbh
No, I think they'll launch whatever their new online service may be in September, in line with their iPod announcements. Probably iTunes 9, not a standalone new product.
It's definitely sad but come on, we saw it coming. Apple (and most companies) usually assimilate the companies they buy.
It's definitely sad but come on, we saw it coming. Apple (and most companies) usually assimilate the companies they buy.
Resistance is futile!
I LOL'd. =)
I had just started using it. You could purchase music for $0.89 per song. It was a great alternative to Apple. Sigh... Guess I go back to Amazon.com or Walmart.com...
OH MY GOD IT'S GONNA BE........Zune.net?
That's what I was thinking. I love my Zune Pass.
Just because she's the loudest Teletubby...
Google was using them as their primary music service when you would type in a song name, it would give you a link to listen to it on that site. When you did, it would play the song in a pop up window which was minimal and would allow just 1 play.
Wonder if Apple is killing the service out of spite to google!!
One word came to mind when I read this: Microsoft.
Oh? Why?
Really? I had "boobies".
Tacos was my one word...
Peanuts for me!
I had Pegasus. What was the answer we were searching for?
Too bad. Yesterday I found a song on Lala and decided to go over to iTunes to buy it.
The one word I thought of was Thundercougarfalconbird
applefail they always shut down stuff especialy if they are not making tons of money offa it. applefail you have my pitty but thats all you deserve.
This would be interesting if Spotify hadn't completely killed my iTunes usage.
And Lala let you listen to a song once for free, so I could use my leech program.
Kidding. Sorta.
@+what
Because Apple is buying up smaller companies in order to dominate a certain market, and if the first thing you think off of is 'boobies' when you think of steve jobs than I kinda feel bad for you
monopoly ... here we go ! yay !
apple you fail as you will always stop supporting stuff if you lose out of your greedy pockets like a monopoly and stop charging soo much as your junk is worth half of what your charging, your as bad as the goverment.
Well thats a shock, I thought they would keep it as a good alternative to their future upgrades to iTunes. Never been more amazed...
What better way to get rid of your competition? Buy them, then once you're the boss just shut them down, leaving one less alternative to iTunes.
apple fail and steve fail, you buy all and then theres no competition how sad but then steve jobs is sad and a fail since he came back.