Well of course they are. Anything anyone is doing in media Google is going to do also.

Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton 
Well of course they are. Anything Apple is rumored doing in media Google is going to do also.

Well, at least this. 

I've switched the default search on my Safari to Bing. Not quite as good, but that's how much I hate these Google twerps. Never thought I'd see the day when the old Micro$oft bugaboo would become an ally.

Google's music service competes with Apple's iTunes, and even undercuts it by offering the ability to match and upload a personal music collection for free. Apple's iTunes Match charges $24.99 per year for the same functionality, as does Amazon.

Anything you can do, I can do better.  I can do anything better than you.

No you can't.

Yes I can.

No you can't.

Mine is free.

(Crickets)

^ Oh look, another troll popped up. Nothing like lying to try and make a point, is there?

Off the top of my head I know Google won't update your music to higher bit rates (like iTunes does) and songs I purchase in iTunes (or Amazon) don't count towards my limit where Google has a fixed limit.

Of course, Google will always have a harder time offering any type of music service given their relationship with record labels. Just the other day the RIAA was criticizing Google for not doing enough to downgrade searches for illegal music. I'm sure that will help their negotiations immensely.

Do people actually use this service? Seems like a waste of money. Download or purchase the songs yourself and then put them on your phone. Uses too much data to stream it. Rip CDs if you have to lol. Definitely not worth paying for (or using google's free service)

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Originally Posted by jragosta 


In addition to Eric's specific comments, there's the matter of Google's massive invasions of privacy. Someone might offer you a free ice cream cone if you let them peek in your bedroom windows, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea.

You make a good point but I've come to the conclusion, at least based on what I've seen anecdotally, that the vast majority of people don't care about lack of privacy. And then there are those like Robert Scoble who think that privacy is pretty much dead anyways.

So Google is going to "innovate" in streaming music?

im still waiting for them to innovated email and calendars bc they are basically using the same open standards invented decades before but they haven't innovated the way we use, or protocols, of email and calanders. 

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Originally Posted by Robin Huber 

I've switched the default search on my Safari to Bing. Not quite as good, but that's how much I hate these Google twerps. Never thought I'd see the day when the old Micro$oft bugaboo would become an ally.

Personally, I have selected Yahoo, for the same reasons. It's fine.