MacRumors has posted a new update, saying that the new iOS Beta 7 kills iCloud “streaming”, which was really just a cache usage, according to InsanelyGreatMac. So, if a user wants to download a song from the Cloud, this is still possible but the song will store on the device you choose to listen to the song from.
But, apparently iTunes Match on the Mac does still have a streaming behavior. Arnold Kim writes:
Even with the newest iTunes beta release from tonight, users can reportedly stream songs from iTunes Match and those songs are not saved permanently to their Mac. Mac users must explicitly press the iCloud button to download and save songs locally — of course, this could change.
Personally, I haven’t been a proponent of streaming at all, since download speeds and technology haven’t quite caught up to make this a go-to solution. Perhaps with future cellular technologies like 4G/LTE on the iPhone, streaming can be a primary listening method.