Google to Include iTunes? 232
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.
Re:Complete blurb (Score:3, Interesting)
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Ready?.... It'll have probably a Music link. If it has anymore than that, people wouldn't make it a frontpage.
share price.. (Score:0, Interesting)
Anyway, my point is that their stock only went up because they're fashionable - not because they're actually doing well relative to their stock price. Compared with it's peers, their stock should be around $20 (not $46). If you own Apple stock, start thinking about an exit strategy - at the very least make sure you have a trailing stop at $3 to $5 (7% to 10%) below peak price to protect your gains so you don't forfeit everything if the stock falls back to the $20 to $30 range in a few months.
At least it isn't GameFAQs. (Score:2, Interesting)
I'd take the semi-democratic method of moderation used here over the dictatorial, elitist system used at a place like GameFAQs any day.
While your post may be moderated down, at least others will still be able to read it months and years from now. Unlike at GameFAQs, where it would probably be long gone already, inaccessible to all, forever.
Imagine something like google print (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
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.
Re:Are itunes songs acoustically altered? (Score:4, Interesting)
Bringing Intelligent Search to Music (Score:3, Interesting)
Google (I'm feeling lucky): "Buy 'Pink Floyd: The Wall' from iTunes Music Store Now!"