Google Music announced, tightly integrated with Google+ - Page 3

Originally Posted by mjtomlin

You're correct... You had the freedom to not agree with the User Agreement and not sign up to post in these forums. That agreement clearly outlined what is exceptable behavior and the consequences you would face if you did not adhere to them.

If you can't join in a discussion without staying on topic and without adding something to it, you shouldn't have entered the discussion in the first place. Almost everything where there are two or more sides in opposition is moderated in some fashion... Debates, court hearings, sports, etc.

So while it is a free country, there are rules and laws that participants need to follow and there are those that make sure everyone stays within bounds.

Without moderation you end up with the Jerry Springer Show.

Originally Posted by Patranus

They need to focus on their core business.
This adds nothing to their core business.
It simple an attempt to copy Apple at every turn as they have been doing since ES took over.

Originally Posted by hmurchison

Thanks for understanding AD. I know you have more to offer.

I'm gonna try out some tracks at 320k and see how much of a difference. Cool thing is
that if I subscribe to iTunes Match it's going to let me upload tracks even if they are
purchased via Amazon or Google.

You could build a library of 320k songs at home and iTunes Match 256k songs for mobile devices.

This could get pretty interesting.

Originally Posted by Alfiejr

Apple of course has the oldest and most fully developed ecosystem - the famous "walled garden." certainly the most polished, and with competitive but generally higher prices. once consumers (not techies) get themselves set up with several integrated Apple devices plus iCloud and iTunes Match, they are very unlikely to switch in the future because it all works pretty nice. and Apple doesn't need to dominate the others as long as it takes most the profits while they cut each other to shreds.

Originally Posted by gcom006

$25 a year to have 20,000 of my songs matched as opposed to having to upload over 200 GB's of music is an amazing deal in my book. The 4,000 or so that iTunes Match hasn't been able to Match as of yet are taking their sweet time despite maxing out my upload bandwidth. I can't even imagine having to upload my entire collection. It'd take an eternity with the brutal upload speeds WOW plans offer, all the while limiting my bandwidth available for other purposes.

There are certainly elements of iTunes Match that aren't perfect, but it's early and even with the occasional bugs and oddities, it's a pretty incredible service at a pretty reasonable price. It's not for everyone and it certainly needs to improve, but after trying Google Music out for a bit early on and seeing the full rollout today, I'm confident in the fact that sticking with iTunes Match is the best deal for me. Between Match, Spotify Premium and wonderful remote desktop apps for my 3G iPad, I don't foresee myself ever having a major mobile music need again.

And I have absolutely no problem whatsoever paying for these services at all.

If Google services weren't free, I wouldn't even consider using them. And even though they're free, I only use search occasionally and a Gmail account for "junk mail" when I have to sign up for things on the internet like this forum. I've never gotten spam or seen ads on my MobileMe/iCloud e-mail. I had no problem paying for that benefit either.

It's actually quite nice to be able to have internet-based experiences that aren't littered with bullshit. That's worth money to me.

Google will continue to be successful for some time at offering mediocre if not terrible products to people who either have terrible taste, low expectations, entitlement issues or some combination of all three and more. Google will still be financially successful in the end because all the crap services exist simply to mine data that ultimately helps to increase their ad revenue. I simply have no interest in getting overly involved in a race towards mediocrity.

Originally Posted by Sierrajeff

Last couple times I was on Google+, it seemed pretty dead. Seems like after an initial flurry, most of my friends (including some geeky types) have stayed on FB. And frankly I still find the Google+ interface annoying, and more cumbersome than it needs to be. (And why can people "share" with me when I don't know them - I got some porn spam that way.)

Regardless, I don't get wanting to share every detail with your "friends" - whether it's Google Music on Google+, or Spotify on FB. I don't care what my friends are listening to, and don't want them to know my every move either.

Originally Posted by Sierrajeff

That's the key. Soooo nice to be able to know that all the Apple products we buy integrate with each other and "just work", right out of the box. I don't want to have to work at using an Android phone, let alone try to configure it to work with my PC, laptop, TV, etc.

So for me, that's why Apple is still #1 by far - by a level of magnitude. I don't have to think about it, it just does what I want**