To say that downloading content for mobile phones is a most lucrative business no longer implies the discovery of America. Operators, manufacturers and developer companies are filling their pockets with this market, especially one: Apple. Your iTunes music store is the way to go for many, and Google knows it. That is why it has got to work, and it seems that the download portal for songs, albums and video clips for Android phones could arrive sooner than it seems.
Some analysts speak of the possibility that editing Android 2.3 already includes a shortcut to the future music store from Google, an option that for now can not be assured. This service would also be integrated into the multimedia playback system of the Android terminals, which in turn could be synchronized with both PC and Mac computers, independent of the applications they use on their computer to put order in their playlists.
To make this possible, Google became interested a few months ago in a company, Simplify Media, which developed the technology necessary to get Android to have its own iTunes. The main comparative difference that this version would include with respect to Apple's original one would reside in the integration of the giant Google: its popular search engine would work to locate playlists, albums, songs or videos through an integrated interface similar to the one we could today locate in the news or images options.
However, the most punctilious points in Google's intentions will reside in the cost that the service will entail for users, as well as in the development of commercial deals with record companies. Precisely the latter issue is now a focus of concern for Apple, which is being investigated by a US court, according to some allegations point to the practice of monopolistic actions to prevent their competition had been done in part of the cake of this market.
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