Will Google MP3 Store Compete with Apple and Amazon?
By Dennis Kuba
October 17, 2011
October 17, 2011
- Google is expected to roll out its own music store in the next few weeks.
- It will reportedly tie into the company’s Music Beta service that allows users to upload and store their music collections.
- Music Beta was announced after launch of Amazon’s unlicensed service, Cloud Drive. Also worth noting: “Apple got licenses for iTunes Match, which will instantly link a user’s songs to Apple’s master collection.”
- “Its earlier negotiations with music companies, for a so-called smart locker service — a Web storage system that lets people link their digital music collections to a vast central database — broke down over financial terms and the music companies’ complaints that Google was not doing enough to curb piracy,” reports The New York Times.