http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/ Engadget Comments for Google setting up music store later this year, looking for search and Android synergy http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
I want a serious competitor to the Zune. More specifically, the Zune Pass.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Yes...and hopefully we can physically own the music as well as add our own to our collection, just as iTunes does. I assume that Google's offering will be largely cloud-based, which I think is great, so long as they still have those two features.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
This explains why they denied the YouTube API for http://www.jamwee.com - smh]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
Yeah, a good subscription service is all I really want. I've been using iTunes for years, but have hardly ever purchased anything from it aside from a random track here and there. ]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
Its called Rhapsody.

Then try a little program called Tunebite.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
He said "serious competitor"]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
Agreed. The only thing keeping me on iTunes right now is the sweetness that is Airport Express music streaming. (By the way, I'm open to suggestions for alternatives).]]>Jun 22nd 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/napster dude all the way.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
I wonder how far is Apple search along...]]>Jun 22nd 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
Napster isn't first party. It isn't tightly integrated with the phone. Also, it won't allow music streaming like the Zune Pass will on Windows Phone 7.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
Here's to hoping that if your computer fries, and you lose all your music, you don't have to re-buy it from itunes, which is a super shitty feature considering you can re-download apps, but you have to re-buy music if you lose it all, fuck itunes, i want something new.

AND WHAT HAPPENED TO MY 69 CENT SONGS YOU CHEAP MOFOS!?]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
Zune Pass is the first music distribution system that I've been willing to support in ages. You talk to any iPhone/iTouch user and they go nuts over Pandora. That should tell you how unappealing the iTunes model is. If you're big on music, there's nothing like being able to listen to exactly what you want, when you want.

Just because Microsoft hasn't yet really advertised Zune Pass (go ahead, ask some random strangers if they have ever heard of it) doesnt mean that they won't once WinPho7 drops. If they have the money to push Kin the way they've been, I'm guessing WinPho7 and Zune Pass won't be so unknown to the public for much longer.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Google becomes Apple]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
What do you mean?]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/They both copy each other's markets. ads, media, apps, hardware]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
Oh yeah, silly me.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/You are misinformed about the two company's philosophies. Stop making up bullshit. Apple's focus is on the consumer market.
Google's focus is to expand their presence in every platform, the web, mobile, television etc, to increase their advertising revenue. It's why they bought Youtube - to put ads in every video. It's why they bought Android and are trying to spread it out as widely as possible - for free along with purchasing AdMob. And it's why they are building Chrome. This has nothing to do with letting 'it flow'. Stupid. ]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
Apple on the other hand isn't getting into search. iAds? But that's purely within the mobile framework, *a framework that Google itself has decided to get into AFTER Apple*. So even there, you can't argue that Apple is competing on Google's turf.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
Apple's focus is on making money. So is Google, MS, Dell, name it...

Now, the way they are trying to secure their market and/or expand it may differ, but in the long run, all they want is to make more money. It's simply being in business.

@fpad77 may have use the wrong word, but he wasn't "making up bullshit". He simply should have used "business strategy" instead of "philosophy".]]>Jun 22nd 2010 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Sigh...
If you want to know what their business strategy is, read item 1 in their 10-K filing. "They are in the business of making money" isn't worth replying to.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Even if Google started ''AFTER'' apple you must know that no matter who started, competition is ''ALWAYS'' good and better for the consumers, unless you work for apple or unless you are happy living in the closed walled garden dictatorship of Steeve Jobs. Trust me, I rather trust a company that is more open.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
And you can look at all the SEC filings you want until you're eyes bleed. Any companies goal is to make money PERIOD. I know you want to believe there is something deep and magical about Apple but the fact is that they are a company in business to make money just like the rest of them. Case closed.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/I'm not defending either. I was calling out the stupid 'stranglehold' versus 'flow' analogy. Stop posting the obvious.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
Idiot.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
So because someone's done something before, no other company should ever do it?

If that were the case we wouldn't even have cell phones. We would still be hitting up an operator that would manually do the switchboard. We wouldn't have computers, there would be big rooms full of refrigerator sized boxes. We wouldn't have cars, we'd have horses.

This is how advancement happens. One company sees where another falls short and capitalizes on their shortcomings.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/How is this dictatoresque]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/I say, we need a distributed, peer-to-peer Facebook with data on user's computers, not on Facebook servers.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
How about competition? With another player in the digital music, especially one with this much web presence, Apple may be forced to include some new, groundbreaking features in iTunes.]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
Apple just admitted yesterday that it's tracking users and their info too. What are you paranoid freaks gonna do now?!]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
I support Google, because they know all my secrets. If I crossed them, I could be in big trouble. ]]>Jun 22nd 2010 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/
but yea...if you want privacy...the interwebs is not for u...]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Google is kinda scary]]>Jun 22nd 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/google-setting-up-music-store-later-this-year-looking-for-searc/Jun 22nd 2010 9:10AM