I saw briefly a demonstration of Google Music, which is Google’s answer to something I’m not sure is really much of a problem. See for the last year the media has been going on about the need for music to move into the cloud in order to do away with the awful hassle of spending 1 minute of your time syncing files to your handset. It’s picked up steam and now all the major players (Apple, Google, Amazon) and so fourth are getting ready to give you their solutions.
Personally I’m not to convinced in the idea of moving all your data into the cloud. I think it’s being pushed very hard because it can help to curb piracy, and while it has it’s advantages in some regards I think it poses a bunch of other problems and issues.
The thing that has been bothering me about what Google demoed yesterday is that it essentially just moves this “burdensome” process of managing your music from one area (your mobile devices) to another (the cloud). You still need to put in the work of uploading all your music into their service and adding any new music you purchase into the service. So the chain has moved from one arm onto the other.
I guess the problem that makes this so glaring is that Google doesn’t sell any music, so your music will need to come from other sources wether that be Amazon or iTunes and then uploaded into their service. It’s really a glaring omission in my opinion and it makes you wonder why they rushed to demo this thing.
