Wheels have been turning in the world of iTunes, subtle ones.

With Apples purchase of web streaming service LaLa, is iTunes preparing to move from your desktop to the web?

Its not a secret that parts of iTunes have already raised their heads on the web, already you can view music and apps with no reason why video content won’t appear soon.

Is this Apple beta testing the new environment? Its quite possible, many will remember the release of mobileme website a while ago and agree that the site was released way to early and damaged Apples reputation.

So with the prospect of an online version of Apple iTunes, what could be expect so see?

I’ve put together some ideas, all are possible, some are already implemented but will we see them in iTunes-X ?

• Web based iTunes, that sync’s to your desktop client.
• With your library sync’d online (purchased content only), you can manage/create your playlists online and have them pushed to your mobile device.
• Streaming already purchased content directly from iTunes-X online.
• Microsoft have been doing it for ages, sync’ing your mobile device wirelessly. Knows your home WIFI, and will sync with iTunes in the background.
• Content purchased from iTunes-X online can be streamed immediately and sync’d to client.
• Purchased content “backup up” on iTunes-X local library failure means it can be restored at any time.

Its all speculation but very possible, with the release of OS4.0 for the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad devices a new release of iTunes is guaranteed. The purchase of LaLa with the recent releases of music & app previews on the web suggest this is becoming more and more likely.

What do you think? Are there other services you’d like to see that I haven’t mentioned?

Let us know…

**UPDATE

Apple Wants To Store Your Video in The Cloud, Too

Speculation ran rampant after Apple’s acquisition of Lala.com that Cupertino was planning to store your music library in the cloud. But a recent report finds that they don’t plan to stop there, with Hollywood and video being the next targets.  …read more

Ok, we have heard a lot about the Apple iPad quite a lot over the past to month or so, but now the dust has settled a bit…

So I’ve decided to have a look at the product and all the murmurs from other publications in an attempt to speculate what Apple plans for this “new” device.

What?

From what we’ve seen it’s a “iPod/iPhone” like device with 9.7in display. The press have been quite harsh describing it as an “iPhone” without the phone and too big for the pocket.

We know for a fact that the inside the device very different, definitely not a device we are familiar with. The iPad utilises a new multi-processor called the A4. It’s a 1GHz processor developed my Apples recently purchased PA Semiconductor division. The chip not only looks after the maths but also the graphics processing amongst other things, which reduced the chip count and the power requirements pushing Apples power estimates to 10 hours of surfing or watching movies – there is no mention if this refers to the WIFI or 3G version though.

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