Google To Take On iTunes?

An anonymous reader writes 'Multiple sources say Google is preparing to launch Google Audio. According to people familiar with the matter, Google has been securing content from record companies. Is Google about to go head-to-head with Apple's iTunes?'

Comments

Antitrust

[iamacat]

As a dominant content company Google must not be allowed to use it's search results to promote it's product offerings. They better have ironclad separation between the divisions.

Re:What about the player?

[jeffstar]

an alternative to itunes would be great, but it would have to sync non jailbroken iphones ipod touch / whatever comes next and apple clearly doesn't want any program other than itunes doing that. see palm.

Re:What about the player?

[LordAndrewSama]

I just visited mpd.wikia.org in opera and it redirected to some zroalert.com site "Initializing virus scanner" with a little alert saying my computer was at high risk and should be scanned thoroughly. I disabled scripts and quickly closed the tab, then visited again in firefox with adblock plus and it's fine, no redirects. some malicious advertising there, maybe? anyways, just warning people.

Also, googling zroalert.com didn't find anything much, except that the domain had been registered...

Re:Its a Fractal

[dunkelfalke]

"If you make something that any idiot can use, only idiots will use it."
This quote is very true in the case of iPod. I'll rather take a flashy gadget with OVER 9000 features.