Thursday, February 24, 2011

Rumor says Google rolling out music service with the honeycomb (Appolicious)

Google (GOOG) has its own subscription service, is about to roll out in-app purchases and has a web-based store app for Android: now only need one service selling music and mirroring of Apple (AAPL) will be completed.

Rumor has it and is working on such a service, which will roll out with Android 3.0 honeycomb, the operating system version is specifically geared towards Tablet devices. At least, that is according to Mashable.

The guardian has caught the list like Motorola, mobility (MMI) CEO Sanjay JHA accidentally revealed Google plans for a music service as he was touting Xoom Tablet of his company. Here's the citation: JHA

"If you look at Google Mobile Services [via Android] today, there is a service of video, there is a music service — that is, there will be a music service."

Whoops. While this is not the first we've heard about Google's music service. Honeycomb has a music Google app included with it, and Google has also showed off an online music service without name back in May. There were other committed, too, but the indication is that Android is going to get their own version of iTunes.

Powerful Tablet Xoom Motorola is going to be among the first machines enabled honeycomb and JHA said Google Music (if this is what is called) "will be based on honeycomb," according to The Guardian.

Like the rest of the efforts of Google's online service, Google Music will likely be cloud-based, allowing users to stream or download songs from wherever they are, provided they have access to the Internet. Is the system itself that the online version of the Android market uses to navigate content and applications for Android devices users, whatever they are. Mashable says that the service would offer a Google Music sort of digital locker, which stores your purchases in the cloud to access every time.

But it seems that Google has a long way to go as far as a music service and not on a technological front. The record companies are reluctant to jump in with Google on the whole "digital locker" idea, according to the New York Post, and while Google is trying to get licensing issues clarified, could be a big obstacle going forward. It could stop the whole music service, but may well kill or slow the cloud-based component.

Yet, the assumption is that especially compressed and Android devices in general are going to have access to your music store in the near future--probably not too long after the honeycomb starts to become widely available, starting with Xoom launch later this month.

Plan quickly by reducing the number of key differences between iOS and Google Android seems to make pretty good, though. Provided that the company can convince the music industry to go with the flow, Google will be removing another important point of sale from the line-up of iOS and leveling the field further.



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