Steve Jobs announced iTunes in the Cloud at last week’s WWDC event. A beta was made immediately available for US users but it appears that UK users will have to wait until 2012 to use the service.
The Telegraph is reporting that deals between the music labels and Apple have yet to be concluded and therefore the service will not roll out until the first quarter of 2012 at the earliest.
Quoting a source that wishes to remain annoymous but that works in the UK music industry, the Telegraph report informs us that…
“Tentative talks have begun between the major labels and Apple in the UK. However, all talks are at the really early stages and no one expects to see the cloud music service live on this side of the pond until 2012.”
It is expected that iTunes in the Cloud will be made to available to the US public at large in September. It is not yet known if there will be a global launch of iTunes in the Cloud but if the issues surrounding a UK launch are anything to go by, the rest of the world is likely to witness a similar delay.
When iTunes in the Cloud launches in the UK it will provide stiff competition for Spotify. Spotify is a subscription based music service that lets you stream music to your computer and mobile devices and boasts a catalogue of approximately 13 million tracks .
