Last year at this time, I compared six music services to iTunes and came away most impressed by a tiny company called Lala. (I was still impressed in this follow-up post six months later.)
Lala was an indie upstart in April 2009, with 30 employees (all but five of them writing code). They had a unique business model—one insider told me, “We want to be a cloud music app”—and a high-octane software development cycle that had the company releasing new versions of its web-based client every two to three weeks.
Lala’s founders cashed out last December, selling the company to Apple for an undisclosed price. And since then? Lala’s innovation has stalled. Or, more accurately, it’s shifted into reverse. At least one key feature has been removed, the much-anticipated iPhone app has been scuttled, and support has turned sluggish.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1955
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