Google Music Store Chases Apple’s ITunes 8 Years Too Late: Tech
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Google Inc. entered the online music market today -- almost a decade too late to pose a threat to Apple Inc., the largest seller of songs on the Web.
The service, unveiled at a Google event in Los Angeles, lets users store and stream as many as 20,000 songs online and listen to tracks on multiple devices. Google has forged partnerships with 1,000 record labels, including Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group, letting it offer a total of 13 million songs. Apple, meanwhile, opened its iTunes store in 2003.