(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Amazon and Google's music streaming services are not as good as they were hyped up to be. However, it seems it will be Apple to once again lead the way and show the world how it should be done, as they did with Facetime and the phone itself.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple has struck a deal with four major recording companies as well as movie studios.



Add the fact that a CNET report on Apple exectives being all over film studios a year ago, and it sure tells us that iCloud isn't going to be just another simple MP3 locker, but an advanced, sophisticated service combining all kinds of various multimedia and, more than likely, social and location-aware elements, all tied right in to iOS 5.

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