Google to Include iTunes?

Baher Al Hakim writes "The Street suggests in a recent article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google to offer Apple's iTunes Music service through Google's site. The rumored deal would pair the nation's leading online music store with its leading search engine." Update: 08/13 22:00 GMT by T : Truncation untruncated.

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Modern Times Require Brands

[Doc Ruby]

Look, there's enough corporate/government fascism out there to get fired up about. Any look at my posting history shows there's no shortage of it, or outrage from me. But 1> this move has nothing to do with the government, so it's hardly fascism. And it's a branding play. Which is how any group, whether corporate, government, religion, sports, or anything else that millions/billions of people do together, manage to do it. Branding is the only way that we humans, with our relatively crude communications skills (relative to our needs), have to relate to one another in those numbers. Meanwhile, some individuals, like Steve Jobs, have mastered the game of communicating 1:N, where "1" is Jobs, and "N" is humanity. Come up with something to replace it that doesn't take a corporation, with all its fearsome baggage, and criticise it. Until then, keep a sense of proportion.