“Even as Apple continues to develop an iTunes to rule them all, Google’s battle with Apple continues — and a fresh skirmish is seen this morning with the sneak preview of what at first appeared to be search giant’s own cloud-based iTunes-killer, Google Music,” Jonny Evans reports for Computerworld.
“Purported publication of a Chinese-language webpage for the service, which promised music in both streamed and a la carte forms, came as Google officially applied for a new operating license in China,” Evans reports. “If it fails to win the license then it will be forced to cease operations there in 2012.”
Evans reports, “The appearance of this seeming music site later saw Google PR begin moves to deny this was Google Music, but its appearance still ignites a little rumination round the Apple-holic water cooler… As we think we know, Apple seems set to launch (or at least preview) its own iTunes streaming service in September, so for this Christmas at least, the Google v. Apple war means we live in interesting times.”
Full article here.
“I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall.
I really don’t know clouds at all.”
Another day, another Google plans to battle ____ for _____.
Google is going down the same path as Microsoft. Deviating from their core competencies and trying to be all things to all people.
I can’t wait for a cloud-based iTunes.
I don’t think it will be free though. My guess is it will be integrated with Mobile Me.
Perhaps that is when the “free Mobile Me” rumors will begin to come true…
Basic Mobile Me, with limited functionality, at no cost, but if you want email rules, iCal sync, Find My iPhone, and iTunes in the cloud, you need to be a subscriber.
Google…. the new Microsoft….
brought to you by Eric “The Mole” Schmidt ….
a hybrid of Gates and Sculley.
Genius Streaming will kill Pandora. Tis’ a pity. They’ll probably buy P up after a while when it’s cheap.
Still waiting for an in-car system that is Apple-rific. Can’t someone slap an iPod touch or iPad into my dashboard and make me squeal with glee like a little child?
Again? really? Google will never learn. Google was more valuable than apple a year or two ago, once they started to compete against apple, they started to decline. Haven’t they learn anything yet?
Nerd Beautiful
Put a Mac Mini in-dash and use an iPad with screen sharing.
That would be kewl….
I am still unsure about the future of Cloud computing. I think some people like to keep their money safe in their mattress.
@Nerd Beautiful
Check this out.
The perception is also that Apple too has to be the new Microsoft in order to succeed. Good thing people focused on Babe Ruth’s hitting rather than his pitching, although he was also an excellent pitcher. But he was already “The Babe,” and he built this great, big House.
Apple seems to be very successful at building game-changers, while everyone else is trying to build “Killers.”
As an artist, a rebel, a square peg and a Different Drummer- I don’t have much respect for all these other companies no matter how good or bad they may be. Think Different!
@Nerd Beautiful: Genius Streaming will kill Pandora.
Only if you can stream tracks you haven’t already bought. If you’re saying that’s the case, it’s the first I’ve heard of it.
And even if it was, Pandora is a pretty big target to knock off.
——RM
@Buster
Ah, nice! Maybe not the safest thing to do, but with the right interface it’d be awesome. Wonder what apps are going on there…
Thanks for the link.
Don’t you just love how every would-be (or even rumored) Apple competitor is billed as an “Apple killer”. Now here home Google Music, the “iTunes killer”. In your dreams, Google! My guess is that Google will do about as well selling music as they did selling Androids. That sure didn’t last long!
I am an Apple fan but I definitely want more competition just to keep Apple on it’s toes. I would rather Google succeed and Apple keep bringing great products instead of Apple cruising without being pushed to new limits. Look at the example of iPhone 3G & iPhone 3GS.
Yeah, competion is no problem. But when the scum crawls out of the sewers and steals and copies everything you innovate over year… my ass!!!
F$@ck Google, the new a$$hole headquarters…
Google’s motto:
Why should it be genuine, if it can be a cheap ripoff, that SUCKS!
I think with our without competition Apple pushes the envelope…
Perhaps Apple competes with itself….
The notion that competition fuels innovation is a flat-out myth. Just look at the marketplace: Competition everywhere and not an innovative product in sight. Apple lives to outdo itself. That’s why they keep pushing the envelope—not because of half-assed, would-be competitors who couldn’t outdo the iPhone if their lives depended on it.
So now Moleman is gonna come out dancing to the Beach Boys?
What a dork. What the hell, Google? This copycat stuff is getting awkward and sad.
@Nerd Beautiful
In-dash iPad is an accident waiting to happen.
“The notion that competition fuels innovation is a flat-out myth”
I couldn’t agree with you less.
Maybe you have some convincing data?
“In-dash iPad is an accident waiting to happen.”
Which is exactly why you should Velcro it to your windshield….
Google should stick to Search, the rest of their stuff leaves much to be desired..
At least apple should hurry up a new streaming service, because Spotify is better, faster, and much more convenient than the sluggish, expensive iTunes.
@TowerTone:
The data is right in front of you: the almost complete absence of innovative products in the electronics industry despite cut-throat competition at every turn. If you disagree, you are easily impressed.
This is an Amazon MP3 killer.