Posted on 05/20/2010 10:08:38 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Today at Google I/O, Vic Gundotra introduced Froyo, aka Android 2.2. But he also went a bit beyond Froyo. Coming soon, is a way to download an app through the Android Market over the web — and have it automatically download on your Android devices too. But that’s not all. Gundotra also showed off a new section of the Market — Music. Yes, an iTunes competitor on the web from Google.
Details are sparse at the moment, but here’s how this basically works. You go to the Market on the web, find a song you like, click the download button, and just like with apps, the song starts to download on your Android devices. So it’s iTunes, over the web, with auto-syncing. No word on who the partners are for this, what the prices will be, etc. Undoubtedly, we’ll hear more about that soon.
And that’s not all.
Gundotra also announced that Google recently made an aquisition: Simplify Media. Using this technology, Google will soon offer a desktop app that will give you access to all of your (DRM-free) media on your Android devices remotely.
 |
iPod |
| Send FReepmail if you want on/off iPing list WARNING: This is a high-volume Ping list. Turn your headphones down |
|
| The List of Ping Lists | |
Just puttin' it out there.
/yawn.
I have an I-Pod Nano.
It’s an expensive pieces of technology garbage.
I’m really disappointed, because I’d heard such good things about I-pods and looked forward to using it in my car.
I love my iPhone but Apple needs some competition in a bad way.
I have just got a new phone from HTC with Microsoft Windows on it, the UI was completely rewrote to look like Android.
It is shameless.
Next big question: Is Apple moving iTunes to the cloud.
Because if they aren't, they may be in big trouble.
Bump
I use both Apple and Google tech. itouch and android phone. Both are great, but I am finding myself rooting for Google to level the playing field. Android will quickly catch up to Apple and this will, in the end, be great for consumers.
For the record, I *hate* posts that begin with “Um.”
¿ Barry is that you ?
I have been through them all, had an original 40GB iPod back in the day, iPhone when they first came out and now have an Android based phone from HTC (great phone, not so great for organizing music), but for music in the car out of all this stuff I found the simplest and quickest way to listen to the music I want - was to just copy it to a USB key and plug it in to the USB port in the car.
Before I had a car with USB support I just burnt what I wanted to hear to a CD as mp3s, at less than 5c per CD was worth tossing than having to go through syncing and hooking up your player to the car with cables every where.
Its the only way you can just grab what you want when you want and go, instead of fiddling with synching this or that and waiting for the various libraries to pat each other on the back, just a PAIN.
So while its great Google is coming out with a competitor to iTunes, I just prefer to keep it simple :)
Download music from amazon.com at amazon.com/mp3. It’s DRM free and a whole lot cheaper than iTunes clocking in at around $.99 per song wheras iTunes is $1.23. The AMazon MP3 sound quality is also better than iTunes. I have a friend in the tech industry who passed along this information to me, I guess the record industry has a hard on for Apple and decided to screw them over by offering lower priced songs and better quality MP3s to Amazon.
The HD2? The UI is Sense which is HTC’s. They put it on both WinMo and Android phones, but it is unique to them for either OS.
They did buy and shut down Lala. It would seem that tech would help with that.
And Lala was a good competitor of iTunes.
ah, that explains it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.