Google Music vs. iTunes Match: First Round Knockout For ... Google Music
Jason Gilbert
HuffPost
Posted: 11/17/11 06:32 PM ET
Google has often been accused of stealing ideas from Apple, most famously by Steve Jobs pointing to Android. And on first glance, Google's music player and cloud-storage locker Google Music seems like a rehash of the also recently released iTunes Match.
Well, it's not. There is no nuance here: Google Music is better than iTunes Match. GMusic makes iMatch totally redundant, a needless expense for a service that Google will give you for free, and that Google service matches iTunes Match (sorry) in nearly every important point of comparison.
Yes, there are many, many reasons to be pessimistic about several aspects of this new iTunes/Spotify/Napster/BitTorrent competitor from the tech giant who tests and rejects products like spaghetti. It is questionable, for example, whether the Internet needs another online marketplace for music and whether Google's music market has done enough to differentiate itself from iTunes and Amazon. The music recommendation engine in Google Music seems OK, but people who want to listen to music before purchasing it should just stick with Spotify and YouTube. The integration with Google+ is ... well, NASA just sent a rover over to that website and found no signs of life.
On the other hand, the Google Music locker, accessible at music.google.com, is a gutsy, aggressive swipe at an Apple service that was considered such an exciting breakthrough that, back in June, Jobs reserved it for his "One More Thing ..." announcement at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference. Apple probably thought it would be a real distinguisher.
(More here.)
HuffPost
Posted: 11/17/11 06:32 PM ET
Google has often been accused of stealing ideas from Apple, most famously by Steve Jobs pointing to Android. And on first glance, Google's music player and cloud-storage locker Google Music seems like a rehash of the also recently released iTunes Match.
Well, it's not. There is no nuance here: Google Music is better than iTunes Match. GMusic makes iMatch totally redundant, a needless expense for a service that Google will give you for free, and that Google service matches iTunes Match (sorry) in nearly every important point of comparison.
Yes, there are many, many reasons to be pessimistic about several aspects of this new iTunes/Spotify/Napster/BitTorrent competitor from the tech giant who tests and rejects products like spaghetti. It is questionable, for example, whether the Internet needs another online marketplace for music and whether Google's music market has done enough to differentiate itself from iTunes and Amazon. The music recommendation engine in Google Music seems OK, but people who want to listen to music before purchasing it should just stick with Spotify and YouTube. The integration with Google+ is ... well, NASA just sent a rover over to that website and found no signs of life.
On the other hand, the Google Music locker, accessible at music.google.com, is a gutsy, aggressive swipe at an Apple service that was considered such an exciting breakthrough that, back in June, Jobs reserved it for his "One More Thing ..." announcement at the company's Worldwide Developer Conference. Apple probably thought it would be a real distinguisher.
(More here.)
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