Google Music? Here comes a more direct shot at Apple.
By admin • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: Apple
Either someone has pulled off an elaborate prank on TechCrunch, or Google Wave is going to be launching some kind of music service.
Details are still fuzzy, but whatever it is you can imagine that it will be Google-like in that it will be easy to use, free, and work very very well.
In short, it’s no wonder why Google and Apple have stopped being such buddies.
A couple of months ago when Eric Schmidt left the Apple board, the speculation was that it had to do mostly with Android competing with the iPhone. That may have been part of it.
But it may have had more to do with this music service. Apple makes good money selling iPhones and computers, but it practically mints money with iTunes, a service where other people make the product, and Apple just takes a cut and doesn’t have to actually build or ship anything.
Now music didn’t exactly fit in with the mission of Apple back when it was Apple Computer, and it’s hard to see how selling or even making music available for free is a part of Google’s stated mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” I suppose you could call music “information” but really this makes it clear that both companies have the same mission: make money. No surprise there, but it’s always important to keep in mind. It’s easy to ascribe higher or lower motives to both companies, but they really are just companies that do what they do to make money.
[Thanks: http://www.examiner.com]
