http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/ Engadget Comments for WSJ confirms Apple purchase of Lala http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 4th 2009 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
I wonder how Apple's going to make this look like they've invented it?]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/that will only happen when lala bought over apple... ]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Not exactly like Zune Pass, nor was Zune Pass even close to being the first music rental service.

"Lala is unveiling the first and only free fully licensed service to instantly provide anywhere Web access to an existing music library such as iTunes. Replacing the outdated approach of uploading MP3 files from a PC, Lala introduces a licensed technology to instantly match songs from consumers’ personal music libraries with the Web-based catalog on lala.com.”]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Ugh why do you exist. . .]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 5th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 4th 2009 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Why would you want a SUBSCRIPTION service? Internet Radio is free. Keep it that way.

What are you thinking, man?]]>Dec 5th 2009 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Were you a big fan of DIVX? Do you lease your car?

Think it through.]]>Dec 5th 2009 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
I'm using Spotify premium right now with my iPod Touch after using Rhapsody with my Creative players for years. The thing is what do you value? I see people with Netflix/Love Film/Blockbuster accounts who have no problem stumping up £10 a month for 3 movies or £2.50 per rental...for what...a 2 and a half hour movie. 2 and half hours entertainment or music I can listen to again and again...albums that will see me through my commute to work, my work out at the gym and while I work in the lab at my job. Now that's worth £9.99 a month to me. When I stop paying I don;t expect to keep my DVD rentals so why do people expect to keep music? We seem to see music as a form of entertainment that should be subject to different rules. I value music more than watching a movie that may or may not suck like I used to with my Love Film account. After sitting through a bad movie I've already paid for I have no recourse...that's it. With Spotify I can just stream/sync another one of the millions of songs I have at my disposal. ]]>Dec 5th 2009 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 4th 2009 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/I know, right? Guess I can move to something like Grooveshark or Spotify.]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 5th 2009 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 5th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Also,
Holy Crap! When did Microsoft add streaming music from the web for Zune Pass owners? I've been waiting this for forever at work.
Sorry, Lala I didn't really use you much anyways.]]>Dec 5th 2009 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 4th 2009 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Agreed!]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 4th 2009 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
And why would you do that, Joshua? Well, not that it matters; we can't rank you guys anymore anyway. Nice to be able to say anything with zero consequences.]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Because they want you to verify that the user is still active and to build a better user database. And in regards to not being able to rank an admin/author... it's their site and stupid people say stupid things to authors when they think they can be anonymous and get away with it. If you don't like a particular author... take your viewership somewhere else you tool!

You don't get to up-rank or down-rank an admin on almost ever site out there. Just be happy that you are allowed to rank comments at all.]]>Dec 5th 2009 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 5th 2009 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Oh, sure delete active, yet unverified accounts.

Meanwhile the site remains full of Javascript errors. The ranking buttons on posts that have ranking buttons don't work half the time. They never work in IE. the Tip us pop-up doesn't work in IE. There is no way to search a page for replies.

As buggy as the comment system was, it has only gotten worse. It is like you guys did next to no testing before you "went live" and now you don't really know what you are doing well enough to actually make things work.

It is an embarrassment.

But we all know it is all those Unverified accounts that are the real problem, right?
]]>Dec 5th 2009 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
That's what I need, an ad between each listen specifically targeted to what music I listen to.]]>Dec 5th 2009 1:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Count one more for the Google position on this... It's been a real surprise.
Apple has enough customers and the ability to deploy a service like this in no time, why buy Lala?]]>Dec 5th 2009 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 5th 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
I know! You'd think Engadget would have tested their site in at least IE8 before launching the new design. Or would have at least fixed it up by now. I can understand not supporting IE7 and lower, but this is IE8!

They should have more to worry about than these unverified accounts.]]>Dec 5th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Is there any way to change my username without creating another account?]]>Dec 5th 2009 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 5th 2009 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 4th 2009 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
offing |ˈôfi ng; ˈäf-| |ˈɔfɪŋ| |ˈɑfɪŋ| |ˈɒfɪŋ|
noun
the more distant part of the sea in view.
PHRASES
in the offing likely to happen or appear soon : there are several initiatives in the offing.
ORIGIN early 17th cent.: perhaps from off + -ing 1

valuation |ˌvalyoōˈā sh ən|
noun
an estimation of something's worth, esp. one carried out by a professional appraiser : it is wise to obtain an independent valuation.
• the monetary worth of something, esp. as estimated by an appraiser.]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/How con you never have heard the word offing.]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Spelling Nazi fail.]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Ellipsis fail!]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
I just failed]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 5th 2009 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Can I flail to]]>Dec 5th 2009 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
People just want to score points, it's almost like they'll be hired by engadget staff to moderate or something.

I'm glad I stay off commenting for the most part of each day.]]>Dec 5th 2009 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 4th 2009 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, ITUNES WILL RULE ALL!"]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/i cant believe i've to live without music in the future]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Theres always Pandora heh?]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 4th 2009 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Did it earlier today. It's actually a really good service.. I hope Apple does something good with the service]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 4th 2009 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Copying from the MS playbook.]]>Dec 5th 2009 3:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 4th 2009 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
"Unfortunately, Lala is currently only available to people in the US. We are working feverishly to expand internationally, so please stay tuned."]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Uh, you can blame that on legal precedent, not Lala.]]>Dec 5th 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/Dec 4th 2009 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/wsj-confirms-apple-purchase-of-lala/
Should be interesting.]]>Dec 4th 2009 11:45PM