Google to Compete with iTunes
Posted on January 30, 2006
Google may be on the verge of launching a music download service to compete with Apple's incredibly popular iTunes.com< service. Forbes is quoting an analyst from Bear Stearns as saying, "We believe that Google is in the midst of creating its own iTunes competitor, which we've dubbed 'Google Tunes.' We think this is a logical step, now that the nascent Google Video product has been introduced."
The article says that in addition to iTunes, Google will have to compete with other music download services like Yahoo Music, Real.com and Napster. Google would be late to the party but it would have the massive Google traffic and popular brand name behind the new service.
Obviously, Google is not going to call it Google Tunes - this was just an internal Bear Stearns designation. But it would be somewhat hilarious if they did name it that. Then we could also see other rivals like Amazon Tunes and Microsoft Tunes.
