Last night Wired.Com posted up a good article that lays out a strategy Google could follow to dethrone iTunes as the leader in music distribution. Many of the suggestions involve leveraging the cloud and allowing users to stream their music purchases to their devices.
I have been thinking along similar lines. Google Chrome OS is just a browser and nothing more. It can play music stored up in the cloud but nothing locally stored. Although it is only intended for netbooks for the immediate future, if Chrome OS is to make the leap to the desktop, users need a way to manage and play their precious MP3s. If we could upload our music to Google and stream it back down to Android phones and computers running Chrome OS, Google would make inroads on the traditional buy-and-download model.
Music service LaLa offered a cloud-based solution for music but Google lost the bidding war to acquire LaLa to… Apple, of course. The Wired.Com article is a good read if you find any of this interesting…
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/google’s-music-strategy-past-present-and-future/
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