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Google Launches 'Music Beta' Cloud Service

URFloorMatt said:
Today feels like War on Apple day:

1) Microsoft buys Skype, poised to set up a Facetime competitor across Windows devices and Xbox.
2) Google announces a flurry of Android related developments that challenge iOS, iTunes, etc.
3) YouTube begins its assault on iTunes by announcing movie rentals.

If nothing else, maybe this will finally force Apple to rewrite (or rethink) iTunes so that it stops sucking.
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Why does iTunes suck?
 
So what does Apple get for playing by the rules and working with the record labels?

Seems like Apple is getting beat to the market time and time again because Apple does it the right way even if that means getting screwed in the long run.
 
rk1985 said:
C'mon now, really? Are you afraid to wake up in the morning too? Why would this be any different than uploading your music to dropbox or amazon?
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The sun has never tried to sue one of its consumers, so no, I am not afraid to wake up in the morning.

Use common sense: Google tries to work out a deal with the labels, fails, and then goes ahead and says, "hey, put your music collection on the Web!" What could possibly go wrong . . .
 
sully677 said:
Why does iTunes suck?
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I think I can answer that for him. In a word: BLOATWARE

My personal gripe with it is its broken shuffle. Its actually be tested by a number of groups. It picks about 30% of your library and only shuffles that group of songs. You'll never hear anything out of that group play.

That combined with the fact that its no longer i-TUNES it should be renamed iOS Manager.

I miss Winamp :(
 
With some or perhaps all of your music in the cloud, that's going to hit your GB download limit on your Verizon/ATT account. The carrier bases limits on downloading are the biggest detriment to cloud based storage
 
Does anyone have a reasonable use case for this?

People with music libraries so big they don't fit on their iOS devices? (Seems like a huge investment to serve a niche market)

People who want to listen to their music as a "guest" on someone else's device? (Also not really getting that one)

Maybe I'm missing something. Right now it just feels like another shoulder shrug technology, like Airplay.
 
Once again ios users are left out in the cold because Apple has a monopolistic approach to their ecosystem and won't let other companies release cloud apps for the iPhone... Totally sucks... Or maybe in this case, both Google and Amazon decided they didn't want to waste time developing an app only to have to fight with Apple over the functionality in order to get it approved... Who knows, but man those new Android smart phones sure are looking better and better then my iPhone 4 every day... Especially with their larger screens, and their open ecosystem.
 
Flash?

Really? They've got to be kidding.

Besides, Amazon sells lots of music, and offers the storage to anybody who buys the ... mp3... music.

Google is losing its way.
 
Oddly enough I have heard no indication about an app for the iOs to let you play your music on an Apple device. Its not going to be useful if you have a Mac client but restrict the mobile platform to just Android.
 
sully677 said:
Why does iTunes suck?
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It's bloated, slow (practically not useable if you're on a PC), has no (real) web-based solution, requires incredibly cumbersome syncing (especially for apps), etc. And why can't I run my iOS apps on my Mac?

By and large, iTunes is the same application it was 10 years ago. They've just grafted feature after feature into it (video, apps, Genuis, the iTunes Store, for instance) with little concern for useability or common sense.
 
pffffttt

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With Pandora and other great customizable radio stations, who buys and maintains their own music libraries anymore?? Nevermind, feels the need to stream it rather than store it locally? Seems so 2007 to me. :rolleyes:

I hope this isn't the big thing with Apple's data center. All I want is wireless sync with my computer, no stupid cloud music storage.
 
WestonHarvey1 said:
Does anyone have a reasonable use case for this?

People with music libraries so big they don't fit on their iOS devices? (Seems like a huge investment to serve a niche market)

People who want to listen to their music as a "guest" on someone else's device? (Also not really getting that one)

Maybe I'm missing something. Right now it just feels like another shoulder shrug technology, like Airplay.
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You sir, are narrow minded and need to stop thinking for yourself. My iPhone only holds 32 gigs. I need to reserve 10 gigs of that for apps and photos, leaving me only 20 gigs or so for music. My iTunes library at home has 15,000 songs and is over 150 gigs.

There are millions of others like me out there who have been playing mp3 files since the day the mp3 format was invented and have a vast catalog of music, and want access to that catalog from any device in the world no matter where I'm at, and unfortunately, they don't make an iPhone big enough to hold it. Even if I got the 160 gig iPod classic, which Apple is talking about discontinuing, I would already have filled it up and have no more room for new music.
 
URFloorMatt said:
Google has seriously raised the bar with the I/O keynote. Apple better have one massive show in store for WWDC.
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I couldn't agree more. Google went to town at this I/O. I'm really impressed with the span of their developments.

I can't wait for WWDC. Apple really needs to be prepared to show off some great new updates.
 
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