In the midst of the its ambitious ‘non search market’ initiatives – largely dominated by Web video and television software - that Google recently unveiled at its Google I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco, there was also a somewhat subdued, yet very real, discussion about Google’s music services.
Though the discussion pertaining to Google’s music service failed to grab much attention because of the announcement of Google TV on Thursday, the company nonetheless revealed that the music capability will enable users to stream all their PC-stored music to an Android-based handset, provided that the PC is powered up and is connected to the Internet.
There are also speculations that Google intends launching a music store in the near future – more so, as the company indicated music as one of the kinds of content which users can purchase from an Android App Store and send to their mobile handsets or other devices.
Though Google has not yet made any announcement about its music content partnerships, Vic Gundotra, Google’s VP of engineering, said during a press conference after the keynote address at the conference that music service is “a capability that’s coming” from Google.
Gundotra said: “We just focus on delivering better apps for the user. Over time, you'll see that strategy more broadly unfold.”
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