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by ansy 15y ago

smackfu 15y ago
"A Google cloud service could now be in the offing as soon as September, said sources familiar with the talks." Wait, what? Different than Google Music?
- deleted 15y ago
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- devindra 15y ago
  Google Music doesn't currently let you stream music that you don't already own, and it's also not tied to any particular music store. I think they're referring to Google launching a legit streaming service together with the music labels in a few months.
  - whopa 15y ago
    Judging from this sentence from the article > The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant has agreed to pay the labels between $25 million to $50 million each, as an incentive to get on board, depending on how many tracks consumers are storing. sounds like what Apple is launching is also a music locker service akin to what Google Music is now, and not streaming arbitrary music. Perhaps the author is referring to when Google may remove the invite-only aspect for their service, or maybe just confused.
- ugh 15y ago
  You need an invitation to get in.
  - smackfu 15y ago
    I'm just a Joe Schmoe who requested an invite on the day they announced it and I got one. Too bad I didn't get any further invites to give out.
    - ugh 15y ago
      It’s not open to the general public and the details of the service when it will open to the general public are not yet known. We will have to wait until Google opens the doors to everyone and how much – if anything – it will cost you. It would be seriously cool if Google continued to offer this service for free. I suspect that they will offer the service with a generous limit for free after they are out of beta (I would imagine at least 2,500 songs – that would be roughly on par with Amazon’s free 20 GB) but I also suspect that they will start charging for the service if you want to upload more. We will have to wait and see.

Original: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/apple_pays_music_bigs_OcxlGqT1E0P5P9vzosxtyK http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/apple_pays_music_bigs_...

by ansy 15y ago

Original: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/apple_pays_music_bigs_OcxlGqT1E0P5P9vzosxtyK http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/apple_pays_music_bigs_...

smackfu 15y ago

"A Google cloud service could now be in the offing as soon as September, said sources familiar with the talks." Wait, what? Different than Google Music?

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devindra 15y ago
Google Music doesn't currently let you stream music that you don't already own, and it's also not tied to any particular music store. I think they're referring to Google launching a legit streaming service together with the music labels in a few months.
- whopa 15y ago
  Judging from this sentence from the article > The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant has agreed to pay the labels between $25 million to $50 million each, as an incentive to get on board, depending on how many tracks consumers are storing. sounds like what Apple is launching is also a music locker service akin to what Google Music is now, and not streaming arbitrary music. Perhaps the author is referring to when Google may remove the invite-only aspect for their service, or maybe just confused.
ugh 15y ago
You need an invitation to get in.
- smackfu 15y ago
  I'm just a Joe Schmoe who requested an invite on the day they announced it and I got one. Too bad I didn't get any further invites to give out.
  - ugh 15y ago
    It’s not open to the general public and the details of the service when it will open to the general public are not yet known. We will have to wait until Google opens the doors to everyone and how much – if anything – it will cost you. It would be seriously cool if Google continued to offer this service for free. I suspect that they will offer the service with a generous limit for free after they are out of beta (I would imagine at least 2,500 songs – that would be roughly on par with Amazon’s free 20 GB) but I also suspect that they will start charging for the service if you want to upload more. We will have to wait and see.