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Google Music Store Inches Closer?
smallguy78 writes "Forbes is once again reporting on Google plans to launch its own competitor to iTunes, a Google music store. From the article: 'The music industry is broadly unhappy with the fixed pricing and lack of subscription options at the market-leading iTunes Music Store and likely to support alternative services.'" We have touched on this subject previously. This most recent report would seem to indicate the launch will happen sooner rather than later.
Probably, filtering out stories who's headline ends with a question mark would augment the overall quality of the Slashdot content and, especially, the headlines.
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This headline reminds me of the "Far Side" strip where two cavemen are standing outside of their cave with a glacier wall just inches away, and one of the cavemen is saying, "Say, Thag, wall of ice closer today?"
I can see a version of this strip where the cavemen are Steve Jobs/Apple and the glacier is Google...
If a baby duck is a "duckling," why would anyone want to eat "dumplings?"
$60 / month for up to 12 DRM laden, non transferrable 128kbps windows audio files. If the labels are dictating the terms you know the deal will suck ass.
Or Google can simply use the pricing model that they think will make the most money, even if that means doing what the industry wants. Google does what they want, Apple does what they want. Then we find out who is right and who is dead.
Perhaps the eternally elusive missing link has been found...
Step 1. Anything
Step 2. Google
Step 3. Profit!
"The stupider people think you are, the more surprised they will be when you kill them..."
Going by google's general productline, gTunes[:-s] could be a server centric music player
:-)
I guess you meant Gtunes *Beta*
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
This is news for nerds and the headline is using the imperial system? Metric, please, metric.
Introducing "Goosic" or what about... "Moosic"... or something as wonderful as "Mugoosicgle"?
Or how about something that just as describing as "Ekiga", which is real easy to remember.
Sarcasm intended.
Hi hope it's as great as the Google Video store!!!
You will be happy to hear that I have it on good auhority there is something that quite pleases the music industry! What is this wonderful thing? Why, it is nothing more than screwing! Be it screwing artists, screwing customers, screwing the public domain, or screwing your congress-person in exchange for legislation to feed their habit, those wacky music industrials just can't get enough!
The music industry is broadly unhappy with the fixed pricing
All Apple has to do to keep the industry happy is rearrange that to "price fixing".
Will music from Google work on my iPod?
If not, it's a non-starter.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
'The Public is broadly unhappy with the price fixing and lack of subscription options at the non-existent Music Industry Digital Music Store and likely to support iTunes.'