Where do you get your music? iTunes.
Where do you get your movies? iTunes.
Where do you get your tv shows? iTunes.
Why do you need an app for Android to enjoy your music? iTunes.
What were Google, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music discussing last December? iTunes.
Where do you get your movies? iTunes.
Where do you get your tv shows? iTunes.
Why do you need an app for Android to enjoy your music? iTunes.
What were Google, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music discussing last December? iTunes.
...to be more precise, the new kid in town - [Google Music]. Cnet, TechCrunch and major music companies are all reporting that Google is getting ready to storm the beaches of Apple's baby, iTunes. Let's go back to the keynotes from day 2 of Google I/O and see what may have gone unoticed by some. 1. Android devices can now purchase and download music from the Android Market, over the air.
2. Google is working to reproduce iTunes abilities with just a browser (their new approach to success), no iTunes. Some may ask, "Well, What about existing iTunes libraries?" Google is reportedly enabling users to play non-DRM music straight from Android devices. While their demo at Google I/O showed music "magically" appearing in a library, there was a string attached: it was a stream. Streaming is a goal that Google has for their music services to come, but the real magic comes with the ever looming 'cloud' that is Google's backbone. While "Apple's managers haven't revealed many details about their plans, but did discuss offering iTunes users a means to store copies of their music libraries on Apple's servers," reported cnet, Google knows the cloud. They are the cloud. My growing-by-the-second 7.49 GB Gmail account can testify right along with my 3 (might I add also free) Google Apps accounts. Now for those of you that think that Apple has the upper hand when it comes to music, vs. an advertising company, Google may surprise you. Google Discover Music and [Google Music] are results of trials carried out with Lala.com and iLike before Apple and Myspace ended them with a buyout. In all honesty, big lables are tired of the iTunes monopoly. They get one source. One price. One way, or the highway. They want choices. We want choices. To quote Google I/O, "this is not the future we want." For years Google, Facebook, and even AOL have been asked to step up to the iTunes plate. As early as this fall, it's on!
2. Google is working to reproduce iTunes abilities with just a browser (their new approach to success), no iTunes. Some may ask, "Well, What about existing iTunes libraries?" Google is reportedly enabling users to play non-DRM music straight from Android devices. While their demo at Google I/O showed music "magically" appearing in a library, there was a string attached: it was a stream. Streaming is a goal that Google has for their music services to come, but the real magic comes with the ever looming 'cloud' that is Google's backbone. While "Apple's managers haven't revealed many details about their plans, but did discuss offering iTunes users a means to store copies of their music libraries on Apple's servers," reported cnet, Google knows the cloud. They are the cloud. My growing-by-the-second 7.49 GB Gmail account can testify right along with my 3 (might I add also free) Google Apps accounts. Now for those of you that think that Apple has the upper hand when it comes to music, vs. an advertising company, Google may surprise you. Google Discover Music and [Google Music] are results of trials carried out with Lala.com and iLike before Apple and Myspace ended them with a buyout. In all honesty, big lables are tired of the iTunes monopoly. They get one source. One price. One way, or the highway. They want choices. We want choices. To quote Google I/O, "this is not the future we want." For years Google, Facebook, and even AOL have been asked to step up to the iTunes plate. As early as this fall, it's on!
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