Google apparently just launched an iTunes web-based competitor

[Azure]

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/20/um-...ompetitor-yep/

Today at Google I/O, Vic Gundotra introduced Froyo, aka Android 2.2. But he also went a bit beyond Froyo. Coming soon, is a way to download an app through the Android Market over the web — and have it automatically download on your Android devices too. But that’s not all. Gundotra also showed off a new section of the Market — Music. Yes, an iTunes competitor on the web from Google.


Details are sparse at the moment, but here’s how this basically works. You go to the Market on the web, find a song you like, click the download button, and just like with apps, the song starts to download on your Android devices. So it’s iTunes, over the web, with auto-syncing. No word on who the partners are for this, what the prices will be, etc. Undoubtedly, we’ll hear more about that soon.
And that’s not all.



Gundotra also announced that Google recently made an aquisition: Simplify Media. Using this technology, Google will soon offer a desktop app that will give you access to all of your (DRM-free) media on your Android devices remotely.

A lot of other cool things be announced at the I/O conference. Froyo is gonna be awesome.

[cKy]

I use Simplify Media @ home for streaming my music to my iPod Touch. works awesome.

Be interesting (or sad) to see what changes Google makes to it.

[octothorp]

Ah, so that explains what happened to Simplify. There was a lot of speculation when they first announced they were shutting down that they had been bought by Apple. I hope that they're able to get an iphone version of this new google product on the iphone, but I'm not holding my breath.
Sounds like Air Video is going to support audio soon, which should fill in for Simplify once it disappears completely.