iTunes, the Cloud, and Forced New purchase Downloads
As more and more information storage moves into “the cloud” — that is to say, you aren’t necessarily storing all those movies, TV shows, books, and whatever else locally on your system, but pulling them in from the Internet at need instead, using other people’s storage instead of your own hardware — it’s interesting to me watching various companies adapt. Amazon has of course been out in front with their AWS service. But Apple has also done at least a workmanlike job as well, slowly adding services so that now, if you like you can store a bunch of your…