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CmdrTaco
on Sat Aug 13, 2005 04:41 PM
from the how-would-that-work-exactly dept.
from the how-would-that-work-exactly dept.
Baher Al Hakim writes "The Street suggests in a recent article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google to offer Apple's iTunes Music service through Google's site.
The rumored deal would pair the nation's leading online music store with its leading search engine." Update: 08/13 22:00 GMT by T : Truncation untruncated.
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smallguy78 writes "Forbes is once again reporting on Google plans to launch its own competitor to iTunes, a Google music store. From the article: 'The music industry is broadly unhappy with the fixed pricing and lack of subscription options at the market-leading iTunes Music Store and likely to support alternative services.'" We have touched on this subject previously. This most recent report would seem to indicate the launch will happen sooner rather than later.
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Editors? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Editors? (Score:5, Funny)
Paul Harvey has it.
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Submit button on the loose. (Score:5, Funny)
first (Score:5, Funny)
LINK TO SUBMITTER's BLOG alert (Score:5, Informative)
For some reason, it *really* annoys me when people link to their own blog instead of the link to the story. At the very least it ought to be obvious that it's a personal link rather than doing it on the sly.
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Re:LINK TO SUBMITTER's BLOG alert (Score:2)
If they're adding information or analysis to the linked article, that's of value and OK in my book.
At the very least it ought to be obvious that it's a personal link rather than doing it on the sly.
Quite so.
Re:LINK TO SUBMITTER's BLOG alert (Score:5, Informative)
1) The submitter of the story included a link to an article on TheStreet.com.
2) The story was truncated by a malformed HTML.
3) The only link visible on the truncated story was the attribution link for the submitter.
4) The submitter's link on his ID, like many of us, points to a homepage or blog.
5) The grandparent of this post chastised the submitter (mistakenly, IMO) for astroturfing or whatever, based on the attribution link, without seeing the submitted story, which contained a link to thestreet.com.
6) The submitters blog, displays the most recent post to the blog, which happened to be the same post he was trying to make to Slashdot.
7) Please pay attention next time.
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Apparently... (Score:5, Funny)
Making up for Dupes. (Score:5, Funny)
No doubt it will be edited but it was amusing while it lasted.
Re:Making up for Dupes. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Making up for Dupes. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Making up for Dupes. (Score:3, Funny)
asdf (Score:5, Funny)
Huh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Huh... (Score:5, Funny)
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Apple! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Apple! (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Apple! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Apple! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh right, like Slashdot is known for breaking news.
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Re:Apple! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Apple! (Score:3, Funny)
-ben
The Street Article (Score:2)
CmdrTaco (Score:5, Funny)
Complete blurb (Score:5, Informative)
Wall Street suggests in a recent Article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google, to offer Apple's iTunes Music service through its site.
That's MAJOR news indeed.
If it turns out to be right, it would be a great deal for both sides, as Apple will gain a wider audience for its music service iTunes through the enormous base of Google visitors, and Google too will at last have a music service to offer, like Yahoo did a while ago.
No need for Google to start its own Music Service, they'll have the best Music Service by their side, what could be better than that.
This is very exciting cooperation between two of the biggest and most influential companies in the Tech World, and it has never crossed my mind, until now.
Let's wait and see.
Re:Complete blurb (Score:3, Interesting)
Web Images Groups News Froogle Local
Ready?.... It'll have probably a Music link. If it has anymore than that, people wouldn't make it a frontpage.
Re:Complete blurb (Score:5, Interesting)
The nice thing will be that you'll be able to search iTunes directly from Google. For example, if I'm looking for Bob Dylan stuff, and I do a Google search, I could get links to Bob Dylan songs on iTunes. Its reasonable for Google search to diversify into multimedia.
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I think (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I think (Score:4, Funny)
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Download from Google Video to your iPod (Score:4, Interesting)
As part of the spin that Apple might do when explaining the reversal on Steve Jobs' "no video" decree. Google Video is a distribution mechanism well suited to short video snippets, just the thing if you were watching it on a small screen, or carrying someplace to watch on a connected monitor. The iPod also has a DRM mechanism built in. Since the DRM scheme is one linked to a portable device, it might be less annoying than one linked to your desktop PC.
I can't picture the benefit for Apple or Google when only audio is involved. But video seems to make more sense.
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Hmmmm (Score:2, Redundant)
Doesn't it seem like the quality of posts have gotten worse since they added the plum where you can see articles in the Mysterious Future and report bad ones??
No Spelling Mistakes! (Score:4, Funny)
Damn freeloaders (Score:3, Funny)
Heh (Score:5, Funny)
Wow! The submitter of the story stopped at the same place all the commentors would have stopped at.
My God, the suspense (Score:2, Funny)
Hmm... (Score:2)
Wall Street? (Score:2)
Imagine something like google print (Score:5, Interesting)
Impressive (Score:3, Insightful)
Pairing up the worlds most popular music service with the worlds most popular search engine is definitely a clever move by both parties, it can only serve to improve their customer bases. A symbiotic relationship if you will.
Bringing Intelligent Search to Music (Score:3, Interesting)
Google (I'm feeling lucky): "Buy 'Pink Floyd: The Wall' from iTunes Music Store Now!"
I can't believe nobody has posted this yet... (Score:5, Funny)
LAUNCELOT: What does it say?
GALAHAD: What language is that?
ARTHUR: Brother Maynard! You are a scholar.
MAYNARD: It's Aramaic!
GALAHAD: Of course! Joseph of Arimathea!
LAUNCELOT: 'Course!
ARTHUR: What does it say?
MAYNARD: It reads, 'Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea. He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of aaarrrrggh'.
ARTHUR: What?
MAYNARD: '...The Castle of aaarrrrggh'.
BEDEVERE: What is that?
MAYNARD: He must have died while carving it.
LAUNCELOT: Oh, come on!
MAYNARD: Well, that's what it says.
ARTHUR: Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve 'aarrggh'. He'd just say it!
MAYNARD: Well, that's what's carved in the rock!
GALAHAD: Perhaps he was dictating.
Behold the power of news.google: (Score:4, Informative)
Shares of Apple Computer (AAPL:Nasdaq - commentary - research) set an all-time high on Friday following a disappointing report from Dell (DELL:Nasdaq - commentary - research) and amid rumors about a major new partnership.
According to market chatter, Apple is set to announce a deal with Google (GOOG:Nasdaq - commentary - research) calling for Google to offer Apple's iTunes music store through its own site. The rumored deal would pair the nation's leading online music store with its leading search engine.
There's "speculation of an iTunes launch," says Paul Foster, an options strategist at Theflyonthewall.com. "Google is going to offer iTunes somehow on their platform," according to the rumor, he says.
Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said the company doesn't comment on "rumors and speculation." A Google representative did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Meanwhile, Apple's shares might well have benefited from Dell's pain. The computer giant missed Wall Street's revenue targets for its just-completed quarter by $300 million and cautioned analysts that they needed to bring down their revenue targets for its current quarter.
Dell's stumble is in contrast to Apple, which has seen its computer sales and share in the PC market surge in recent quarters.
"Some investors seem be rotating out of Dell into Apple," says Foster. "Investors kind of have the attitude that Dell's weakness is Apple's strength."
Shares of Apple closed regular trading up $2.10, or 4.8%, on Friday to $46.10. The company's shares traded up as much as $2.22, or 5%, intraday. Volume totaled nearly 33 million shares, well above its three-month norm of 18.6 million shares.
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MOD PARENT UP (Score:4, Insightful)
To explain further, Slashdot exists for one purpose: to make money for parent company OSDN. There is nothing wrong with that in itself but don't expect a high quality site the way its currently run. The Slashdot business model (if you can call it that) seems to be to provoke reaction from the loyal crowd of slashbots that frequent the site. Inflammatory / trollish stories (e.g here [slashdot.org]) and dupes cause the page hits (and therefore ad revenue) to go through the roof.
As a result, most of the comments I see on the stories are neither insightful, interesting or informative. There seems to be no real balanced discussion - something I feel is a product of the moderation system which rewards those who conform to the slashbot mindset and censors everything else. This democratic method of editing the comments is terrible - especially where technical issues are concerned, as a lot of nonsense is modded up by people who don't know otherwise.
You are probably wondering why I read Slashdot. Partly morbid curiosity and partly to laugh at both the flame wars which invevitably break out and the well crafted trolls.
To conclude, Slashdot is neither really "News for Nerds" nor is it "Stuff that matters". If you want the former, go to somewhere like arstechnica [arstechnica.com] or kuroshin [kuro5hin.org] and if you want actual stuff that matters, the BBC are hard to beat. [bbc.co.uk]
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Great (Score:3, Funny)
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From the page's source:
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Oh, no! I get it! THEY GOT HIM! Somebody stuck him with a stake through the heart! Oh, this is so sad! CmdrTaco... I pine for you.
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Oh, that was great. And who could forget this one?
Ah, we sure had some great times 'Taco. I'm gonna miss you bro.
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Re:Are itunes songs acoustically altered? (Score:4, Interesting)
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Re:What's the point? (Score:3, Informative)
I am one such user who has never tried iTunes. I've never had a need to do so, and I don't like the idea of my music being locked via DRM to a single computer (trust me, I move my MP3s around my network a lot).
And obviously you suffer from some misconceptions. You are not "locked in" to any DRM with iTunes. If you want to rip CDs as MP3s, you can. Even the music you buy off of ITMS is easy to convert to MP3: burn it, then rip it as MP3. And I move files between my home and work computer all the time, no s
Re:What's the point? (Score:3)