It seems that the almighty Apple has recently acquired the new cloud-based music provider, according to an internal source that has made this event known to MacRumors. At the beginning of the month, it was learned of the purchase of all the assets of the audiovisual content company for a total amount of about $ 10 million.
Although the buyer has not been confirmed, it seems that the Cupertino-based company made the purchase of the English company, according to the documentation that is handled of said sale. Which does not acquire Apple are the rights for patents filed by OmnifoneAlthough it does include a "royalty license" in the purchase terms.
And it is that the music company in the cloud owns several patents related to music downloading, digital rights management, and the generation of recommendations, which are potentially attractive for the transmission of content.
Besides, the brand operated its platform with different agreements and associations with companies such as LG, Samsung, Vodafone, Blackberry and Sony, among others. Following this acquisition, Omnifone has abruptly terminated all of its partnerships with them, and we know that some have reported this severance justifying the purchase of Omnifone "by a large company." PonoMusic, which contracted the services of this infrastructure to feed its online store, has been temporarily unavailable since said purchase.
The company, accumulated different debts that are not included in the purchase and it has gone through difficult times, having to lay off some 71 workers last May when not being able to meet the payments of all staff, and breaking collaboration agreements with companies such as Sony and Blackberry at the closure of their Music Unlimited services and Music BBM, respectively.
From the beginning it was thought that Apple could be interested in the assets of Omnifone, according to it Music ally in May, and now that the purchase has been made, it seems that there is no longer any doubt.
