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Gartner Feels Google Too Late for iTune Rivalry
By siliconindia
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Friday, 18 November 2011, 01:16 IST |
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Mark Little, an analyst at research firm Ovum in London too feels that it not easy to beat the number one company in the domain. Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, too launched a storage service for users earlier this year.
Benefited by its partnership with Facebook, Spotify is slowly emerging out as another online-music alternative. Ken Parks, Chief Content Officer for the London-based company, said it has grown to about 2 million subscribers paying $5 to $10 per month for a premium service. Rdio, another startup will offer song streaming without advertising. Rdio offers free service to their users and grants only limited music each month and access is reachable only for listening on computers.
This is not Google's first attempt in music. A service that stores song libraries and playlists, and suggests music based on listeners' collections was rolled by Google earlier this year, but it lacked ability to purchase songs directly from Google after some labels stymied the effort.
Warner, whose artists include Green Day and Madona will help Google to succeed. According to ComScore, Google had most visitors worldwide in September with 1.1 billion and others like Microsoft sites had 914 million, and Facebook came third with 770 million visitors. Ray said, "I doubt they'll meet with immediate success. If they fail, it will take a while for that to become evident because they have enough presence to make at least slow progress for some time."
