Not everyone who owns an iDevice regularly interacts with Apple's media ecosystemâ€"especially since the launch of Amazon MP3. But although Amazon MP3 customers have always been able to download their music on a computer and transfer it to their iPads through iTunes, they haven't been able to benefit from Amazon's companion app/service that lets you stream music directly from the cloud. Until today, that isâ€"Amazon announced that its Cloud Player app, previously only available to iPhone and iPod touch, is now available for iPad and iPad mini users as well.
The app, which has been available on other iOS devices since last summer, allows users to buy music from Amazon and have it automatically transferred to Cloud Player, streamable from any iOS device. Users can also opt to download music from the cloud for offline use, though it must still be played through the Cloud Player app. Anecdotally, I know a good number of iPad-using Amazon customers who have been grumbling about the lack of a "real" iPad version of this app (they tend to use the iPhone version, blown up to 2x), so Wednesday's release is sure to make plenty of users happy. If you've already downloaded a version of Cloud Player for iPhone or iPod touch, you don't need to download it again; Amazon updated its existing app to be universal.
But Amazon giveth and Amazon taketh awayâ€"if only temporarily. The company also just issued an update to the Kindle iPhone and iPad appâ€"version 3.6.1â€"but is now warning iOS users not to install the new version of the app. The latest version apparently has a bug that will delete your entire Kindle library, and Amazon is aware of the issue. "If you are an existing Kindle for iOS user, we recommend you do not install this update at this time," the company wrote in its App Store description, so if you haven't updated in the last 12 hours or so, it sounds like it's worth waiting until a new version can be released.
Source Article from http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/02/amazon-download-cloud-player-for-ipad-but-dont-download-ios-kindle-update/
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