The Twitter feed on it is crazy and so far it seems to be mainly cloud based and the beta test for it, good luck getting on that list, only allows up to 20,000-ish songs for upload. 20,000 songs??? I have around 500 plus songs and only listen to about 100 repetitively, if it wasn't for shuffle I may not even listen to that many. The main part of cloud based is that you don't have it with you, it's on the internet. Now for somethings like files, spreadsheets, pictures, and the like this is an okay system for me, but to stream my own music, even just 40 songs I own that I can think of right now I could kiss most of my data plan good bye in nearly one sitting. Combine that with so-so connectivity on the go, cloud based streaming music is not so appealing to me. I know the response is Wi-Fi connections but when driving, walking, or running around it's not going to happen.
I also watched that the Google currently does not own any music or label rights at the starting line of the beta release. Which you can find out that is not what they wanted to do but are doing it anyway. Like asking for a diet drink at the drive thru but taking the regular version at the window. Now they know how my wife feels.
Lastly on my list is the audience. Looks like Google is making an app for their product but so far only for droid based phones. I'm not one to lug my laptop around with me to listen to my playlist while running so that idea will be out the window and so will it for any non Droid owner. Which is a huge number of consumers. Especially when thinking that 66 percent of all digital music sales were from iTunes in 2010.
So is Google Music going to last? I am sure it will due to the support of die hard Droid fanatics and that the service is free for now like most Google products. But should Apple worry at all? With the small bite that is already missing from the Apple logo I think they will survive.
Personally, I've been using Amazon's cloud service since it launched and I'm loving it so far. I'm interested in seeing how Google's service compares. I've uploaded about 3000 songs to Amazon's service and I love being able to play it from my phone, or netbobok without having to store a copy on the device. My only issue is that I had to cut out all the Beatles music because I ran out of space on Amazon.
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Mr. Silk, You must have some great tunes to pass The Beatles onto something else. What phone/carrier do you use for Amazon's cloud music? And if/when you get the Beta please come back and let me know how you feel about it.
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