Folk,
this is it, the shortest blog article ever
I’ll pen. Everyone, it seems has Streaming on the Brain, be it Music, Video or
Voice Calling Services.
Now
Twitter is taking a second Stab at Music
Streaming as word is floating about that suggests that they have plans to buy Berlin,
Russia-based “YouTube of Audio” SoundCloud
as reported in “Twitter
reportedly in talks to buy SoundCloud”, published May 19, 2014 11:46 AM PDT by Daniel Terdiman,
CNET News and “TWITTER
MAY MAKE ANOTHER RUN AT MUSIC, CONSIDERING DEAL TO BUY SOUNDCLOUD”,
published May 19, 2014 by Christian Brazil Bautista, DigitalTrends.
This
announcement comes a mere seven (7) days after Twitter
has finally availed its members of the Mute Option to mute annoying
Stalkers…..er...….I mean Tweeters as described in my blog article
entitled “How
to mute someone on Twitter - To Block or to Mute for Silence of the Lambs as
The Day the Earth Stood Still”.
I
still can’t access it [Twitter’s Mute
function], as you may have noticed if you read the article, but if this is the “YouTube
of Audio” then such a potential deal would be no different from when Google had
purchased YouTube back in 2006 for US$1.65 billion acquisition as noted in my blog article entitled
“YouTube’s
March To profitability in the Fourth Quarter of 2012AD - Digital Video and
Music Piracy of the Caribbean On stranger Tides”.
Twitter taking a nosedive back into
Streaming was expected, as with faster 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) Networks
rolling out across the US of A, especially from Telecom Provider AT&T as reported in my blog article
entitled “AT&T
launching 4G LTE powered Wi-Fi and expanding AT&T U-Verse - AT&T
offensive as Google sprouts 1 Gigabit IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi Protocol as Jamaica
catches up”, this move was inevitable.
Especially
if you’re Bread-and-Butter is Apple iTunes. More than a very good reason for
Apple to plunk down US$3.2 billion to acquire Beats Electronics and their
Streaming Platform Beats Audio to integrate with Apple iTunes as stated in my blog article
entitled “Apple
to buy Beats Electronics for US$3.2 Billion - Interaxion Mind Reading Device as
when Mind Audio Hits, You Feel No Pain”.
This
is of interest to Musicians and Artiste globally though, as SoundCloud is a popular way to upload and
Stream music with their fans and for Music Aficionados to get exclusive Tracks
free without Downloading as I’ve unveiled in my blog article
entitled “How
to download Music using Index Query in Google Search Engine - Google Search
Engine sniffs out indexes loaded with Music”.
Twitter rides the
SoundCloud – Cloud Music as Developed and Developing World go Supersonic
In
the Developed World, Streaming Music, Video or Voice Calling Services would
naturally proliferate on Mobile Devices as predicted in my blog article
entitled “Music
Cloud Streaming set to rise in 2014 - Still no home-grown Jamaican or Caribbean
Free Cloud Storage Services as we Ride Along on Foreign Cloud Services” and “Cable
TV subscriptions Declines as the Connected Home boost IPTV Streaming”.
The
Developing World is slowly catching up, as low-cost Budget smartphones now
sport features of the High-end Smartphones and the features of low-cost
smartphones start to trickle upwards to the High-end smartphones.
Features
such as Emoji, Stickers and Dual-SIM (Subscriber Identification Module)
(low-end smartphones) and 4G LTE, Wi-Fi Direct and App (High-End) are beginning
to merge, making low –end and high-end, at least in terms of specs,
indistinguishable from each other as pointed out in “Don’t Diss Cheap
Smartphones. They’re About to Change Everything”, published 05.16.14 6:30
am By Mat Honan , Wired.
So
Streaming is yet another feature coming to the Developed World that’s trickling
down from the First and Developed World. This as Jamaica is on the cusp of
going Supersonic with 4G LTE in the next eighteen (18) months as stated in my blog article
entitled “LIME
and Digicel have purchase AWS and 700 MHZ Spectrum for 4G LTE - Spectrum
Purchase by the Number with Strings Attached as Ministry gets kitty donations
from Local Telcos”.
Already
RJR Communication Group is preparing to go
Streaming in October 2014 with assistance from UNIV to unfurl their common uVOD
Streaming Platform for Radio and Television as described in my blog article
entitled “RJR
Group to launch UNIV’s uVOD Streaming Platform by October 2014 - Streaming
Gamble against Piracy as 2015 is DSO to DTT and Digital HD Radio”.
So
when Twitter buys SoundCloud and integrates in into Twitter, hopefully all Twitter users, Musicians and Performing
artists especially, will be availed of the ability to not only upload their
content via Twitter but also get and
instant audience to Fans and regular Twitterrati on their Desktop, Laptop,
smartphone and Tablet.
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