Google Unifies Media, Apps Into Google Play

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday March 6, 2012 @08:55AM from the enslavement-was-never-so-much-fun dept.

eldavojohn writes "Google has just announced Google Play to merge their existing solutions for music, movies, books and apps in the new cloud based storage system promising that you will never have to worry about losing or moving them across devices ever again. You'll be able to store 20,000 songs for free. The region breakdown is: 'In the U.S., music, movies, books and Android apps are available in Google Play. In Canada and the U.K., we'll offer movies, books and Android apps; in Australia, books and apps; and in Japan, movies and apps. Everywhere else, Google Play will be the new home for Android apps.'"

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Re:Some background by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-06 09:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It's worth pointing out that all of this functionality is already available. There is nothing new here except the name and an icon. Not even an interface change. Much ado about nothing.
Yes, but this IS Slashdot. The frothing masses need to whip themselves into a frenzy over Google doing something vaguely evil every day, or they risk calming down and realizing they don't have any talents besides inventing problems to bitch about. You remember how worked up they got when Google said they were going to simplify their privacy policies with all the data they already collect from you, right? And how they actually weren't collecting anything new?