Google Music Beta Launches for iOS Via Web App

[RDR]

We know, we know -- you're anxiously awaiting the public launch of iTunes Match, but what if you're one of those people? You know, the crowd that dips their toes into both Google and Apple offerings. It's clearly not as blasphemous as you may have been led to believe, as the fine folks in Google's mobile department have just produced an iOS-specific web app for Google Music Beta. For those who've forgotten, Music Beta was launched a few months back at Google I/O, giving audio archivists the chance to upload 20,000 of their favorite jams into the cloud; now, as you might imagine, it ain't just Android users tapping into those libraries. Predictably, the Music Beta iOS web app enables iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users to login to their accounts and stream at will, and if you're down to give it a go, the download link is just below -- you'll need to have been accepted previously into the beta, though.


We gave it a quick whirl on the iPad here at Engadget HQ, and it works beautifully. As you'd expect, the actual graphical elements are a bit lacking compared to the Android app, but all of the core functionality is there. Swiping left / right cruises through Artists, Albums, Songs, Playlists and Genres, and the track currently playing remains in a top bar regardless of what main window you're in. The search function works as advertised, and on a basic cable connection our results populated within two seconds of getting the third letter down. All in all, it's a fairly nice spread (see for yourself in the gallery below), but not quite as nice as we're envisioning a dedicated app to be. Still holding out for one? Heh... we never said Google was that generous.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/08/g...os-via-web-ap/

I am one of those people haha...

RDR Reviewed by RDR on 9th Sep 2011. Google Music Beta Launches for iOS Via Web App http://i.imgur.com/AAx63.jpg http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/08/google-music-beta-crosses-the-aisle-launches-for-ios-via-web-ap/ I am one of those people haha... Rating: 5

[Loonycgb2]

music.google.com anyone and any device can use it..

[Mr Happy]

Whoever wrote that article doesn't know shit. A web based app is far better than a native iPhone app and here's why.

If you have a music service the ultimate goal is to sell music. Google don't currently sell music. It only stores but it's clearly obvious they want to sell music like iTunes and Amazon do and it's wildly known they are working on deals with the music industries.

If you have a native app you have to sell music through Apple. That means Apple take 30% of all your money. It's standard practice and happens all apps in the Apple App Store. Imagine if Apple were to make 30% of every song Google sold. That's crazy as Google would probably only have a 5% margin anyway so Apple would kill Google's music store before it launches fully and the price of iTunes music would constantly be cheaper for every song. It's exactly the same reason why about three weeks ago Amazon released a HTML5 web app book store which I must say is one of the most impressive offline html5 sites I've ever seen.

Facebook are doing exactly the same thing with their top secret project spartan. If you've never heard about it Google it. It's going to pwn. The future is HTML5 web apps. Amazon know this, Facebook know this and so do Google which is why they did this instead of an iPhone app.

I know RDR didn't write it but the author who did doesn't know shit.