Google seems to be getting involved in everything these days. Google recently entered the social networking industry with Google+ and now it seems they will be entering the world of online music stores. Google is now entering competition with Apple and Amazon in a race to create services that combine retail sales and remote music storage. Google's cloud service, Music Beta, and Amazon's Cloud Player both let users store music online, but neither of them have licenses from all the music companies. Due to this, users must upload most of the music that they want stored on their system. Google, though, is talking to three major music companies, Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music and Access Industries Inc.'s Warner Music Group. Music Beta currently allows people to upload up to 20,000 songs. Apple is at this moment leading the race with their recent release iCloud. However, Google's Music Beta is still in an invitation-only testing mode, so we can expect it to become much larger threat to Apple and Amazon.
This will be such a success for Google! The music industry is already of the most successful in media.
ReplyDeleteIt's great that Google is catching up to its competitors and trying new things. It will take time, though, to see how much Google can compete with Apple in this area.
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