So Google just announced Google Music and the Music store within its Android market and naturally people are calling it the iTunes killer. I mean, why wouldn’t be seeing as over 50% of smartphones sold have Android on it? Here’s a few reason why we feel Google Music is better than iTunes Match and the iCloud
Free
When you think Google you think free and they’ve delivered that with Google Music. One can upload up to 20,000 songs for free then stream it to just about anything as long as it has internet. iTunes Match costs $25 a year and allows only 5,000 more songs than Google.
Access music anywhere
Songs matched by iTunes requires at least iTunes on the desktop or an iOS device. Google Music however can be accessed from anything that has a browser and internet. Why using streaming solutions like Pandora or Spotify when you can access your whole music library?
Offline listening
If you have an Android device, you can access it directly from the music player and even cache certain songs for offline listening. With the iTunes Match and iCloud combo, one is required to have internet in order to download that song to listen to. Basically if you don’t have an iPad 3G or iPhone you better have Wi-Fi.
Artists Hub
For only $25, unsigned artists can sell their music directly through Google Music. This does not even exist with iTunes.
Google+ integration
When one shares a song to Google+ from Google Music, all the people you shared to can actually listen to that whole song from start to finish one time. iTunes has Ping…
Google Music could be a huge threat to Apple if they don’t start pushing new, innovating and social features into iTunes Match and iCloud. How many are going to make the switch to Google Music or at least use it for backup?
Make sure you check out why iTunes Match and iCloud may be better than Google Music.
