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Game Over For Google & Amazon. Apple Will Bury Them This Weekend


By Daya Baran at May 19, 2011 3 Comments    Share

That’s right. Google and Amazon’s foray into online music is dead. Dead on arrival. If fact Amazon (AMZN) was at least able to get a little mileage from its crappy music service where as Google (GOOG) fell flat on its face.

This weekend Apple (AAPL) is expected to launch its cloud based music service. The service is a cloud base application of its popular iTunes music store. Apple is poised to own this market too as it already has the download music market locked up with iTunes stores, and this is simply moving it to the cloud.

With Amazon users have to upload their music to its servers – which can take hours. Google’s service is still in beta and they have not figured out if this should be an Android or Chrome service. Meanwhile the market is moving on. With Apple, users can simply stream their music from their iPods, iPhones or iPads. No uploads. Apple will analyze their device and see what music they have in their devices and simply stream it. That simple.

Further, Apple has the support of the record labels. It has signed agreements with Sony (SNE) and Warner Music (WMG). Whereas Google and Amazon have no signed deals with the record labels and hence you might be opening yourself to lawsuits as a result of copyright violation.

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3 Comments »

  1. Do you mean there'll be Goog-erling (gurgling) in polluted Amazon river?

    Comment by vkmo — May 20, 2011 @ 10:58 AM

  2. lawsuits? copyright violation? please tell me this is only for "ripped" music …

    Comment by Roving — May 20, 2011 @ 12:21 PM

  3. It's never game over. The other two players will run out and make the deal with the same music companies. They are probably two months behind on their deals.

    Apple is only offering iCloud on it's own devices.

    With Google's future solution we could potentially stream music on iPhone, iPad, PCs, Android & WeOS devices. That would be a game changer.

    Google has the advantage of being the hub for docs with it's "Google Docs" product. Adding music to it would be a logical step.

    Would be great if Amazon could add music to it's Kindle device.

    Comment by Anil Punjabi — June 15, 2011 @ 1:46 PM

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