The search engine giant company, Google, has decided to conquer few more markets to take over the internet; a report by Wall Street Journal reported that Google could defeat all its rival efforts and launch the online music service just as early as Tuesday. It was mentioned that since the service is being released earlier, it might just be as fragile as Amazon's "cloud" service, which is highly criticized but still somehow allows users to store digital music online.
Image via CrunchBaseWSJ claimed that its anonymous sources have informed on Monday that Google, just like Amazon, has not yet acquired proper licenses from the prominent and relevant record companies, but the company has decided to launch it services without it anyway. Thus this will, however, limit the user to only the "streaming mode" if they have to counter a piracy lawsuit afterwards. This new-born service of Google is rumored to be announced official in public at the annual developer’s conference in San Francisco, and perhaps its release will be initiated in the testing phase, WSJ wrote. Releasing in test phase implies that it will become accessible to the general public at a later date but will only be accessible to limited users in advance.
The newspaper also mentioned the news on the competitors of Google in this race of releasing Cloud Music Service, Apple, it said is still in negation phase with the relevant prominent record companies to acquire the permission license. This indicates that rather than impulsively releasing the service without proper licensing, like Amazon have and Google might do, Apple might be a little more considerate towards licensing and just release the finished version at once.
Amazon had released its service in the end of this year’s March, which allowed the users to store their digital content, especially music which could be bought from Amazon.com or Apple's iTunes or any third source, was held in the special digital "music locker" online in their Cloud Drive, which could be later played at any computer or Android device easily.
With Amazon’s Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, users were enabled to upload material like digital music, photos, videos and documents to Amazon servers, which were accessible from almost anywhere, including all the popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Chrome Web browsers. Moreover, just a recent update also allowed for the iOS devices to also support playing the music content and explore other content on the Cloud Drive, by browsing the website through Safari browser of the device.
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