Convincing details on Apple’s iCloud are spilling out ahead of the official unveiling at WWDC on Monday. The LA Times reports that iCloud will be launch as a free service if you buy music from the iTunes music store but that a subscription fee will be charged in time. It also says Apple has signed Universal up to the service, completing its wooing of the big four record labels.

We saw speculation earlier this week that iCloud may come bundled as part of Mac OS X Lion while others have suggested that it will simply replace the current MobileMe offering. The LA Times piece puts the future subscription at $25 a year which is substantially lower than the current cost of MobileMe. Click the headline and let us know: can you see yourself paying for iCloud?

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  • Anonymous

    To be exciting iCloud needs to be a full cloud service – that doesnt just mean music streaming – it means being able to access any data wherever you are – music, video, photos, voice clips, spreadsheets. documents. calenders, contacts.  It also will need to work nice with a bunch of external systems including Google’s suite and Twitter and Facebook.

    In reality how difficult is it to pick what music you want and put it onto your phone before leaving the house?  Wireless sync is desperately needed.

    I hope Apple is going to launch something great but we’ve been let down before by the Apple marketing dept – MobileMe web apps anyone?

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