Google Launching Music Service Without Labels 406
fysdt writes "Google Inc is set to launch an online music locker service to allow users to store and access their songs wherever they are, similar to one launched by Amazon.com Inc in March. And like the Amazon Cloud Drive player, Google music service is being introduced on Tuesday without any prior licensing deals with major music labels, following months of fruitless negotiations."
Re:Apple? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Licensing (Score:4, Informative)
Presumably they have a legal opinion that they don't need a license to do this. In the US, fair use says you can copy your owned music to other media. That's not true in all countries.
Re:Apple? (Score:2, Informative)
They need to learn the lesson MS learned, its better to have the whole world running your software(or hardware) and only have 5% pay you. Then only control 5% of the market and 100% of those people pay you.
It has a favorable side effect of making your product a household name, and opens up business use. It makes your product the "Standard" that everything else is measured up against. Its why alot refer to Apple PC's as Fisher Price PC's, because when compared to an equally cost point PC, they do look like a Fisher Price toy in comparison.
If Apple had kept a hold on their 90% share, we may have ended up in a world were MS was the trendy hipster thing to own, while Apple is for the real world. Instead of the opposite we have today.
Re:Apple? (Score:5, Informative)
>>>remember when they had a 90+% hold on the PC market? ...Amiga, Commodore and IBM and the rest fractured the market.
There was never a time when Apple held that high share. The #1 selling computer of the late 1970s was the Tandy-Randy Shack 80 (TRS-80). In 1982 Atari 400/800 briefly held the crown. From 1983-86 the Commodore 64 dominated the market. And then finally the IBM PC/clones (1987 to present).