Apple have managed to get the major labels to sign up to there new iCloud media streaming and storage system.
Apple has already got a deal with Warner Music and now has just inked a deal with EMI.
CNET are predicting that the final two of the big four will sign up as quickly as next week and we could see iCloud on show at the developer's conference, which takes place June 6th.
Once the deals have been finalised, Apple will have access to pretty much all commercial music catalogues – as the four companies own the entire music world between them. A quadropoly it you want to get technical.
Apple has been investing substantial amount of money in the service with the whole thing is hanging on the fact that they need to get the labels on boards.
They have bought and setup a data centre in North Carolina and have also got a reported 12 million gigabytes of storage - which is widely expected to be the home of iCloud.
Both Amazon and Google are going down the same route of offering customers a digital locker - but they both failed to get the majors on board though.
Apple is expected to revamp there MobileMe subscription-based storage and syncing service – which we never really understood what it was for.
Apple is thought to have paid $4.5 million for the name iCloud to thin client and online storage outfit Xcerion, which has suddenly renamed its own service ‘CloudMe’.
iCloud will allow expensive memory components to be eliminated from Apple’s portable toys because music and video will be streamed live rather than stored on the device, and could lead to the first affordable iPhone.
We fully expect iCloud to be the main talking point at this year’s Apple’s annual back-slapping convention WWDC which kicks of on June 6th.