Does Lala's Shut Down Mean Streaming iTunes Launch?S  Reader
Aaron Vader has sent us an email announcing that will shut down
on May 31. If you are a Lala user, your credits will be
converted to iTunes credits. Does that mean that streaming would
launch soon?  It's hard to say. WWDC 2010 comes right after
Lala's shutdown, but it's unlikely that Apple would make such a
consumer-oriented announcement in an Apple developers
conference. Especially when iTunes coming into the streaming
arena is something that definitely needs a show-n-tell
presentation by Steve Jobs, explaining why their strong
commitment to the idea of "owning the music" is compatible with
the idea of just streaming it.  Or perhaps Lala would just shut
down, and that will be the end of it. Or maybe it would get
incorporated into the iPhone and iPad product lines, as an
exclusive app. Anything is possible.  For now, however, we only
know that, on May 31, Lala is dead, baby. Lala is dead.  [Thanks
Aaron Vader! (I really hope that's your real name)]