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Google to Launch Music Service to Compete Against iTunes?
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No more like Google and Apple join forces and wipe out MS if that is even possible.
I'm surprised Google's MO is so under-discussed: AFAIK, everything Google does is designed to acquire more information about anyone & everything they can, and to analyze that information to elicit better marketing solutions from it - and, I presume, to quietly sell bulk data-mined information. It's like a commercial version of the NSA: their job is to know everything. Oh sure they are careful to never "cross the line" by doing something immoral/offensive, but every character and every click and every timestamp is collected, collated, analyzed, filtered, visualized and the resulting insight is sold.
Apple uses music downloads to sell iPods.
Amazon uses music downloads to sell music.
And I'm guessing Google will use music downloads to learn everything they can about how customers use music.
Apple uses music downloads to sell iPods.
Amazon uses music downloads to sell music.
And I'm guessing Google will use music downloads to learn everything they can about how customers use music.
For me it's not an elitist thing. It's the following just because, or just for money, that is irritating. We have innovators who create from the heart and we have people who follow innovators around trying to copy as much as legally possible to make a profit from whatever scraps they put out. It's fine if Google/Microsoft are noticed, but be noticed for what you truly contribute to society. Unfortunately, many are slacking nowadays and even their original products that they were/are noted for are lacking in productivity and quality. In turn, to stay in the game, they just make up any old thing. I guess looking from their standpoint, it's fine because they still want to make money. But it's a shame when these faulty, below average, product offerings are actually compared to quality.
What the heck are you all talking about!!!
You can't go around discounting the music industries music per se as if your discounting coke and pepsi at the corner liquor store.The Music guys are allowing the tech guys to use their product to sell hardware at least that's what Apple does. As for Google and their suppose music service what does Google get? They get to pump more info to their advertisers. As far as I'm concerned Google is nothing but spyware that has gotten their stock close to $600.00 a share as of 10-21-09.
This android thing is young and hip and that robot logo has gotten you young folks caught in its web. Exactly where Google and wall street want you. Competition is good but in terms of music on a track by track basis, how the hell do you think Alicia Keys is going to make money on 3 good songs from an album of say 12 songs if Google is selling each for 5 cents? THINK BEFORE YOU TALK!!
Now, as far as running apps in the background, shut up, please. The cell phone is small with a tiny battery and too many apps running at the same time will drain the battery fast as well as slow the performance of the handset. I read an article where a guy's friend had a jail broken iphone running a bunch of freaking apps simultaneously. A big freaking disaster.
You can't go around discounting the music industries music per se as if your discounting coke and pepsi at the corner liquor store.The Music guys are allowing the tech guys to use their product to sell hardware at least that's what Apple does. As for Google and their suppose music service what does Google get? They get to pump more info to their advertisers. As far as I'm concerned Google is nothing but spyware that has gotten their stock close to $600.00 a share as of 10-21-09.
This android thing is young and hip and that robot logo has gotten you young folks caught in its web. Exactly where Google and wall street want you. Competition is good but in terms of music on a track by track basis, how the hell do you think Alicia Keys is going to make money on 3 good songs from an album of say 12 songs if Google is selling each for 5 cents? THINK BEFORE YOU TALK!!
Now, as far as running apps in the background, shut up, please. The cell phone is small with a tiny battery and too many apps running at the same time will drain the battery fast as well as slow the performance of the handset. I read an article where a guy's friend had a jail broken iphone running a bunch of freaking apps simultaneously. A big freaking disaster.
Google is indeed starting to be a pain in the ass.
Apple launches iphone, Google comes up with android.
Browsers by the dozen, Google has to have it's own browser.
OS's anough and Google has to have it's own OS
and it keeps on coming.
Seems like Eric want's to google the world around
I don't think that's a bad thing for us, consumers, as competition will just make everything better for us.
Google Chrome is by far the fastest browser for slow computers, and I hope Chrome OS will be similar so that slow computers can run a simple, minimal OS. I don't know much about Android but as I see it, Google isn't directly competing with Apple, they seem to do similar things but in different sectors than Apple. I don't know what the Google Music Store would be like though.
EDIT: About the Update: Hehehe I was right!
Apple fanboys crack me up. You all get ulcers any time Apple is forced to counteract with something better.
Competition is good, maybe song prices will go down.
I'll third Goo-Tunes; I like the name.
But really I think this is a shot at Last.FM and the like, a service that is more Google-like, with mass amounts of artist/tour/fan info and not a music service as much as a fan/info service, which Google does well.
Reading the One Box article on CNET doesn't make it out to be a music distribution point. But I sure would love to be able to buy Lossless Music from major artists somewhere...
The FTC was investigating his presence on the board in an "anti-competitive" context. Turns out it was just the opposite. It seems almost criminal that he has intimate knowledge of Apple's business model in this realm and then decides to compete against it. The FTC had it backwards the whole time. Makes you wonder if Schmidt was pulling the wool of Jobs' eyes. That would be hard to believe but this is getting interesting.
Google is indeed starting to be a pain in the ass.
Apple launches iphone, Google comes up with android.
Browsers by the dozen, Google has to have it's own browser.
OS's anough and Google has to have it's own OS
and it keeps on coming.
Seems like Eric want's to google the world around
Another OS isn't a bad thing in my opinion, there are only a few available and another one just increases competition (..and confusion for the end user, admittedly)
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Never going to happen, the record industry worked way too hard to get Apple to increase its prices.
Google...
What Google is doing is trying to be the best of all worlds and cheaply (if not freely) give away those services to 3rd parties. In other words, they want to mother the bastard child of apple, ms, and linux to suck on the world wide web of their breasts.. IMHO
What Google is doing is trying to be the best of all worlds and cheaply (if not freely) give away those services to 3rd parties. In other words, they want to mother the bastard child of apple, ms, and linux to suck on the world wide web of their breasts.. IMHO
Yes, it's called data mining, and not only Google does it. Facebook and twitter have an incredible data mining value. Information can be processed to gather trends, which can then be obtained by companies to decide which way they should go with their products. I, in my own personal opinion, don't see anything bad about it.
Think about it, in the end this means better products for you and for your demographics. As an unrelated example, Google can gather Flu trends based on search patterns (people searching about flu) and it seems the system is quite accurate. I think it's magnificent!
Competition is NOT good.
I feel stupider for having read the first page of comments. Competition is NOT, in and of itself, a good thing. It doesn't, by itself, make anything better or cheaper. Choice is a very good thing. Redundancy becomes important in times of stress. But those are NOT the same as competition.
If a company wants to own the market, they will work to create value for customers and treat them with respect. This comes from long-term thinking. Competition will only cause companies to change (increase value, decrease price) IF they are motivated by greed. And greed could cause them to think short-term and decrease price by decreasing value, hoping that no one will notice. That is what happened in the banking sector. There was competition, but it didn't cause the US financial companies to improve their practices.
I don't believe Apple competes. I think that they try to produce the best possible user experience. They draw on every source they can for inspiration, including other (competing) companies. But trying to compete would simply draw their focus away from what they do best: designing hardware and software that run flawlessly together (as much as possible).
I feel stupider for having read the first page of comments. Competition is NOT, in and of itself, a good thing. It doesn't, by itself, make anything better or cheaper. Choice is a very good thing. Redundancy becomes important in times of stress. But those are NOT the same as competition.
If a company wants to own the market, they will work to create value for customers and treat them with respect. This comes from long-term thinking. Competition will only cause companies to change (increase value, decrease price) IF they are motivated by greed. And greed could cause them to think short-term and decrease price by decreasing value, hoping that no one will notice. That is what happened in the banking sector. There was competition, but it didn't cause the US financial companies to improve their practices.
I don't believe Apple competes. I think that they try to produce the best possible user experience. They draw on every source they can for inspiration, including other (competing) companies. But trying to compete would simply draw their focus away from what they do best: designing hardware and software that run flawlessly together (as much as possible).
This is quite possibly one of the worst posts I have ever read.
What do you think they are doing by "designing hardware and software that run flawlessly together?" Face it, Apple is a for-profit business that just posted its' highest quarterly profits ever. This idea that Apple is the Mother Teresa of technology companies here to save the universe from mediocre products is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Why would Google want to step into a market already dominated? A browser, okay cool. MobileOS.. cool.. that can go to carriers. But this? What's Google's competitive advantage over existing services provided?