Tonight looks like a big night for music gadgets and gizmos with Sony and Apple hosting press conferences ushering in new services and devices. Sony are in Germany for the IFA in Berlin, Europes biggest technology show. The Financial Times reports that Sony will be debuting a music subscription service, which will also offer up films and tv shows that is accessed with PlayStation Network accounts- a Spotify style service that covers everything?
Apple are expected to show off new iPod Nano’s complete with touchscreens and we may even finally find out if the company will finally get round to offer a cloud based music streaming service. Aplle should also be showing off their revamped Apple TV, though Amazon have tried to steal their thunder by announcing their own online TV service in the same week that has saw a tremendous first week for their new Kindle device.
Good to see competition between the big companies as this can only lead to bigger and better services for us lot – the consumers. Sony does face an uphill struggle due to having terrible software in the past for music management, but their revamped PlayStation Store went down well with gamers so hopefully lessons have been learned. Apple will be streaming their conference live tonight with a big catch – it is only available to view on Apple devices. Not making this up!
