February 10th, 2011 | 
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Google plans to enter the digital music business to rival Apple’s digital music store iTunes. Search engine giant is trying to ‘taste’ cake business that has a value of nearly approximately $ 4, 2 billion.
New York Times, Sunday (06/20/2010) announced, Google has had numerous conversations with world music labels for content provision cooperation. Most likely, this digital music store will be devoted to the Android based mobile phone users.
According to sources the New York Times, Andy Rubin, who now serves as Chief Architect of Android wanted music to become one of Google priority to develop Android.
Rubin is a man who once worked with Apple so that Apple knew the ins and outs. Android which emerged since 2008 are now trying to challenge phone was built by Apple; the iPhone. As of today, Android becomes a serious threat to the iPhone.
“Google is very serious about entering this business, and they will be very aggressive, the end of this year they will launch the service so that the user can download via the Android phone,” the source said.
Google has not provided official information about that possibility. But software developers at a conference last month, Google gave a preview of how a song can be downloaded through the Android Marketplace, and it shows that Google is planning to lead into the digital music market.
Currently, iTunes still dominates digital music market with a market share of more than 70 percent, followed by Amazon’s MP3 store which controls 12 percent market share.
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