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iTunes Music Service

Another chapter of Google versus Apple.

Google is determined to launch a new music service like iTunes...What Google can do better than Apple in this field? Let's be honest Apple has a lot more experience than Google in IT and iTunes is a very advanced music service.
iTunes is the best music service ever, the number of downloads from the iTunes Music Store is massive and is always evolving. For example the implemetantion of Ping seems a good new feature even though needs improvements but still innovative.
Basically what Google wants to do is the same thing that Apple did with iPhone.
In fact, Google with its Android wants to emulate the Apple's main idea but maybe they missed the right time...anyway Google next time Carpe diem...
Moreover the music service that Google wants to launch should be very good for two reasons, firstly they must think about if users using Androids are ready to pay for music and secondly the time is not very good to present a new service because the 2011 is the year of Apple (like every year) and it will be very defficult to depose Apple. 

Here an abstract from an article from MarketingWeek:


The new service, which looks likely to be a direct competitor with Apple’s iTunes, is to roll out as part of an upgrade of its Android operating system (OS) Honeycomb which will power the soon to be launched Motorola Xoom tablet among others. Read more...