“Google Music was supposed to have an inside track marketing music to the 200 million Android users, but performance so far is not what was expected,” Greg Sandoval reports for CNET.
“Google’s managers have told counterparts at the labels that customer adoption and revenue are below what they expected, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the talks,” Sandoval reports. “Google has yet to throw the full force of its marketing muscle behind the service, and managers have told the record companies that they are trying to correct certain issues. Still, the numbers are low enough for some in the music sector to be concerned, the sources said.”
Sandoval reports, “Google managers have told label executives that the service will get a boost once Google implements its hardware strategy, the sources said. Google plans to start competing against Apple by building an array of consumer devices.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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The Google rip-off artists will continue to fail. Apple has a commanding presence with its proven iTunes Store. Google can’t hope to match it. Google is a bad imitation of anything Apple. Google should have stayed within its competency with search engines. Google might be doing better today if it had! 🙂
And the Android rip[off artist users are too cheap to pay for music; probably torrented it instead. Likewise their software; since Android software costs more than iPhone software.
So that’s why Eric the mole cashed in his chips early.
Haha blah blah
Wait… what? When did Google get a music store?
my thoughts exactly
It launched last May. I see I’m not the only one who completely forgot about it.
There are apps for it on the iPhone/iPad (and of course Android).
Seriously, like, who knew?
“Google plans to start competing against Apple by building an array of consumer devices.” Huh?! Doesn’t Google already have an array of devices?
BTW Gaagle why don’t you ask Microsoft how that worked out for them? Oh and you’ll like their stragedy, you’ll like it a lot.
stragedy – nice
Tragic Strategy = Stragedy
This is probably what the Motorola purchase is about — it’s about more than mobile phones and patents, apparently.
They seem to be playing from MSFT’s playbook of trying to compete in all playing fields because they have the talent, the money and no better business plan than that.
And the copying continues…GoogleTV worked out so well that the company decided to innovate with the GooglePad, GooglePod, and GoogleBook Air. If you could only Google what I am thinking now…
“full force of their marketing muscle”.
Ha, that famous Google marketing muscle.
“Google’s managers have told counterparts at the labels that customer adoption and revenue are below what they expected, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the talks,”
Well of course they are! Is anybody surprised at this? The freetard FanDroids are never going to pay for what they expect to be handed to them on a plate, gratis and free of charge. Fucking idiots.
Fandroid fans are also the five finger music discount crowd. They no buy, they steal. Welcome to the kind of undesirable crowd you appeal to! Apple has already taken the creme de la creme of media and app buyers. What you have left is a wretched hive of scum and villainy and they’re all yours!
How many songs are in their library?
“Whaaaaat! We Android users don’t buy music, we rip it off!”
“Whaaaaat! We Android users don’t have any money. We got our phones for freeeeee!”
yes! lol
If you got your phone for free, shouldn’t you gave more money? 😉
Google, the market leader in Beta product deployment muscle.
Hmmm, what’s the word to describe those android phone owners that are NOT using it as a feature phone?
…. rhymes with beatskates….
Gee, a Google service that doesn’t work correctly?
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
IT MET MY EXPECTATIONS ALL ALONG…I was expecting to have exactly that much success.
They exceeded my expectations.
What the real story is here…
All the market share numbers pushed out by Goofle are BS, lies.
so … as many predicted, this confirms Google bought Motorola to be its future in-house OEM for a full line of Android products. just wait a few years until Moto gets it’s sh*t together, yeah sure …
but also as many predicted, knowing this for sure now, every other OEM is going to dump/fork Android to have their own proprietary OS ASAP now. following in Amazon’s footsteps.
Android fragmentation? you ain’t seen nothing yet. your basic circular firing squad. making sure that no single OEM – except except Apple – can hold a big chunk of the portable computing market(s).
When I think of buying music, Google is the last thing that comes to mind.
Are they going to offer a free download of Puff Daddy’s new song when you sign up for Google Docs or something?
Google Docs + Busta Rhymes would be a great collaboration!
Now delete all blogspot pages full of piracy.
Google owns YOUTUBE and should be sued over it.
PEOPEL can DOWNLOAD the VIDEOS and STRIP out the music — off the GOOGLE MUSIC store sucks — no need to spend money on the songs when GOOGLE is giving it away fro FREE. Do they have the rights? Do the people who POST the VIDEOS have the rights? NOPE.
When Google starts giving a crap about my interests, I may start giving a crap about google and what it has to offer.
Stopped using Google as default search on Macs, iPhone, iPad. Just went to preferences in Safari and switched to Yahoo. I do notice any loss of search ability and low and behold, after a few weeks, my days as an Add target seem over. Goodbye, Google. I already have stopped using Office and am writing a book in Pages and iAuthor. Don’t miss Microsoft either. We just become so accustomed to doing things one way. I can’t do anything individually to get Google to stop ripping everyone off, but that really is their business model. Rip off everything, call it open source and give advertisers everyone’s private information to make a shit-ton of money. Well, I don’t care to participate and maybe a few million Apple users will join together in this effort and make Google back off. Really, Yahoo searches are perfectly fine.
What gives MDN!? You seem to be giving crappy takes on non issues but topics like this, nothing? Your script writers on strike or what?