Just days after getting our first good look at webOS 3.0 through video made by the folks at PreCentral, some new information has come together about HP adding a form of cloud-based music syncing to the TouchPad OS. While the details about exactly how the service is going to work are still uncertain, we know from the slides provided by HP to a PreCentral reader that the service is known as HP Music Store (internally at least). It will involve music being streamed from the cloud to the device, with a local cache of the music you are most likely to listen to. This combined with a brief mention of the ability to stream music to an HP smartphone from the tablet make us excited about what’s to come from webOS.
While it may be too early to speculate very much about the value that a service like this brings to the TouchPad itself, it is pretty clear that the addition of content consumption services like a music store could be one of the determining factors in allowing the webOS ecosystem to become a major player in this market. The webOS platform is in dire need of something to compete with iTunes and Zune which already have a stronghold in this consumer space, and Google has already made it’s intentions about Google Music clear. We’re betting that from how far behind their competitors HP and webOS are starting from, instead of simply doing something, they need to do the thing - and we’re hoping this is a good sign that they’re moving in the right direction.
Via: Phone Arena
