Latest news form Google: Google opens its digital store services to everyone.“Music Beta by Google,” with this newest Music Store by where users can store their music in the cloud instead of on their local hard drives or mobile devices.
Google has finally announced or introduced on Wednesday the opening of their Music online Store which open to everyone. We all know that Apple iTunes is on the lead when it comes to online music stores for downloads or sharing. So Google now is on their way to established their newest Google Music Store hence, this will absolutely compete with pioneer of Online Music store the "iTunes".
The service, Google Music, will sell individual tracks as well as full albums, letting customers store the files in “cloud” accounts. Through an integration with Google’s nascent social network, Google+, the company will also let customers share music by offering friends one free chance to listen to any purchased track.
By offering a music store that has sharing capabilities, Google is directly competing with Apple, Amazon and Facebook. Media and technology analysts saw Google’s announcement as part of an escalating battle among those companies to develop wide-reaching consumer environments.
“They’ve got to make their ecosystem appeal to consumers in a way that Amazon and Apple have,” said Michael Gartenberg, a media analyst with Gartner. “Personal cloud services are what’s going to drive the next wave of consumer adoption. So Google has to be playing here. But because they’re so late they have to be playing here in a unique way.”
Google’s service will sell music through its Android Market, the marketplace where users of its mobile phone system buy apps, videos and e-books.
Google Music will have 13 million songs for sale, the company said in a presentation that was broadcast over YouTube from a Los Angeles art studio. But while the service will have music from three of the four major record companies as well as many independents, Google has so far been unable to reach a licensing agreement with the Warner Music Group, the third-largest major, with artists like Green Day, Neil Young and Led Zeppelin.
Read full story here:http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/google-opens-a-digital-music-store/
Source:http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/google-music-beta-io/
