Google Music Store Inches Closer?

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.

I have a good idea?

[Bromskloss]

Probably, filtering out stories who's headline ends with a question mark would augment the overall quality of the Slashdot content and, especially, the headlines.

Inches closer...

[butterwise]

This headline reminds me of the "Far Side" strip where two cavemen are standing outside of their cave with a glacier wall just inches away, and one of the cavemen is saying, "Say, Thag, wall of ice closer today?"

I can see a version of this strip where the cavemen are Steve Jobs/Apple and the glacier is Google...

Prediction

[LividBlivet]

$60 / month for up to 12 DRM laden, non transferrable 128kbps windows audio files. If the labels are dictating the terms you know the deal will suck ass.

Re:Google's first serious misstep?

[koweja]

Or Google can simply use the pricing model that they think will make the most money, even if that means doing what the industry wants. Google does what they want, Apple does what they want. Then we find out who is right and who is dead.

The Missing Link Found?

[TEMMiNK]

Perhaps the eternally elusive missing link has been found...

Step 1. Anything

Step 2. Google

Step 3. Profit!

Product Name

[alexhs]

Going by google's general productline, gTunes[:-s] could be a server centric music player

I guess you meant Gtunes *Beta* :-)

OMFG

[Anonymous Coward]

This is news for nerds and the headline is using the imperial system? Metric, please, metric.

Name?

[scarlac]

Introducing "Goosic" or what about... "Moosic"... or something as wonderful as "Mugoosicgle"?

Or how about something that just as describing as "Ekiga", which is real easy to remember.

Sarcasm intended.

Amazing

[Dr_LHA]

Hi hope it's as great as the Google Video store!!!

Re:The music industry is broadly unhappy

[ureshii_akuma]

You will be happy to hear that I have it on good auhority there is something that quite pleases the music industry! What is this wonderful thing? Why, it is nothing more than screwing! Be it screwing artists, screwing customers, screwing the public domain, or screwing your congress-person in exchange for legislation to feed their habit, those wacky music industrials just can't get enough!

how to keep the RIAA happy...

[antibryce]

The music industry is broadly unhappy with the fixed pricing

All Apple has to do to keep the industry happy is rearrange that to "price fixing".

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From another article:

[cogitophobia]

'The Public is broadly unhappy with the price fixing and lack of subscription options at the non-existent Music Industry Digital Music Store and likely to support iTunes.'