Google to Include iTunes?

Baher Al Hakim writes "The Street suggests in a recent article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google to offer Apple's iTunes Music service through Google's site. The rumored deal would pair the nation's leading online music store with its leading search engine." Update: 08/13 22:00 GMT by T : Truncation untruncated.

Behold the power of news.google:

http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/tech/hardware/10 237939.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA [thestreet.com]

Shares of Apple Computer (AAPL:Nasdaq - commentary - research) set an all-time high on Friday following a disappointing report from Dell (DELL:Nasdaq - commentary - research) and amid rumors about a major new partnership.

According to market chatter, Apple is set to announce a deal with Google (GOOG:Nasdaq - commentary - research) calling for Google to offer Apple's iTunes music store through its own site. The rumored deal would pair the nation's leading online music store with its leading search engine.

There's "speculation of an iTunes launch," says Paul Foster, an options strategist at Theflyonthewall.com. "Google is going to offer iTunes somehow on their platform," according to the rumor, he says.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling said the company doesn't comment on "rumors and speculation." A Google representative did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Meanwhile, Apple's shares might well have benefited from Dell's pain. The computer giant missed Wall Street's revenue targets for its just-completed quarter by $300 million and cautioned analysts that they needed to bring down their revenue targets for its current quarter.

Dell's stumble is in contrast to Apple, which has seen its computer sales and share in the PC market surge in recent quarters.

"Some investors seem be rotating out of Dell into Apple," says Foster. "Investors kind of have the attitude that Dell's weakness is Apple's strength."

Shares of Apple closed regular trading up $2.10, or 4.8%, on Friday to $46.10. The company's shares traded up as much as $2.22, or 5%, intraday. Volume totaled nearly 33 million shares, well above its three-month norm of 18.6 million shares.

MOD PARENT UP

Yes, once again its another editor fuckup - why is everyone still so surprised that this happens? The 'editors' barely pay lip service to their title and I doubt very much that they read the comments either. At face value there is no real passion from the creators of the site - its just the same old shit day after day.

To explain further, Slashdot exists for one purpose: to make money for parent company OSDN. There is nothing wrong with that in itself but don't expect a high quality site the way its currently run. The Slashdot business model (if you can call it that) seems to be to provoke reaction from the loyal crowd of slashbots that frequent the site. Inflammatory / trollish stories (e.g here [slashdot.org]) and dupes cause the page hits (and therefore ad revenue) to go through the roof.

As a result, most of the comments I see on the stories are neither insightful, interesting or informative. There seems to be no real balanced discussion - something I feel is a product of the moderation system which rewards those who conform to the slashbot mindset and censors everything else. This democratic method of editing the comments is terrible - especially where technical issues are concerned, as a lot of nonsense is modded up by people who don't know otherwise.

You are probably wondering why I read Slashdot. Partly morbid curiosity and partly to laugh at both the flame wars which invevitably break out and the well crafted trolls.

To conclude, Slashdot is neither really "News for Nerds" nor is it "Stuff that matters". If you want the former, go to somewhere like arstechnica [arstechnica.com] or kuroshin [kuro5hin.org] and if you want actual stuff that matters, the BBC are hard to beat. [bbc.co.uk]

Editors?

Uhhhhhhhhh. Where's the rest of the story? lol

Re:Editors?

Uhhhhhhhhh. Where's the rest of the story? lol
Paul Harvey has it. ;>)

Submit button on the loose.

Reports from all over the street says that the well known submitt button is on the loose.

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LINK TO SUBMITTER's BLOG alert

I noticed this on Friday, when the stock jumped by 5% :-) A couple of links that *don't* go to the submitters blog...

• The link on the submitter's blog [thestreet.com]
  
• The stock effect [yahoo.com]
  

For some reason, it *really* annoys me when people link to their own blog instead of the link to the story. At the very least it ought to be obvious that it's a personal link rather than doing it on the sly.

Simon

Re:LINK TO SUBMITTER's BLOG alert

Sorry. I think you are not paying attention to what's going on here.

1) The submitter of the story included a link to an article on TheStreet.com.

2) The story was truncated by a malformed HTML.

3) The only link visible on the truncated story was the attribution link for the submitter.

4) The submitter's link on his ID, like many of us, points to a homepage or blog.

5) The grandparent of this post chastised the submitter (mistakenly, IMO) for astroturfing or whatever, based on the attribution link, without seeing the submitted story, which contained a link to thestreet.com.

6) The submitters blog, displays the most recent post to the blog, which happened to be the same post he was trying to make to Slashdot.

7) Please pay attention next time.

Apparently...

NO CARRIER

Making up for Dupes.

In an attempt to make up for the dupes, Slashdot are now providing half and article at a time.

Baher Al Hakim writes "The Street suggests in a recent article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google, to a ,

No doubt it will be edited but it was amusing while it lasted. ;)

Re:Making up for Dupes.

In recent tiimes, the quality of articles here has gone down. You could even say slashdot has jumped the

asdf

Even Madlibs gives you the part of speech.

Huh...

Is it me? Or are the aricle summaries is getting

Re:Huh...

Well, I, for one, welcom

Re:Huh...

In Soviet Russia, Sla

Apple!

Did Apple file a lawsuit mid-submission or something?

Re:Apple!

Mod parent up for being currently the funniest joke about the half-post and not just coping everyone else by

Re:Apple!

"Did Apple file a lawsuit mid-submission or something?"

Oh right, like Slashdot is known for breaking news.

CmdrTaco

"What the hell I'm doing here."

Complete blurb

http://www.technoogle.com/?p=114 [technoogle.com]

Wall Street suggests in a recent Article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google, to offer Apple's iTunes Music service through its site.

That's MAJOR news indeed.

If it turns out to be right, it would be a great deal for both sides, as Apple will gain a wider audience for its music service iTunes through the enormous base of Google visitors, and Google too will at last have a music service to offer, like Yahoo did a while ago.
No need for Google to start its own Music Service, they'll have the best Music Service by their side, what could be better than that.

This is very exciting cooperation between two of the biggest and most influential companies in the Tech World, and it has never crossed my mind, until now.

Let's wait and see.

Re:Complete blurb

The nice thing will be that you'll be able to search iTunes directly from Google. For example, if I'm looking for Bob Dylan stuff, and I do a Google search, I could get links to Bob Dylan songs on iTunes. Its reasonable for Google search to diversify into multimedia.

I think

Google including iTunes would be a great move, especially considering what they've done with Google Video. They could m

Re:I think

Damn, dude, you beat me to it. I was going to do a joke just like that except I

Download from Google Video to your iPod

When added to the video iPod rumours, it seems to make more sense for Google to tie in with Google Video.

As part of the spin that Apple might do when explaining the reversal on Steve Jobs' "no video" decree. Google Video is a distribution mechanism well suited to short video snippets, just the thing if you were watching it on a small screen, or carrying someplace to watch on a connected monitor. The iPod also has a DRM mechanism built in. Since the DRM scheme is one linked to a portable device, it might be less annoying than one linked to your desktop PC.

I can't picture the benefit for Apple or Google when only audio is involved. But video seems to make more sense.

No Spelling Mistakes!

That's good, right?

Damn freeloaders

I blame this article on the freeloaders. If you subscribed to /., you could have seen this "article" earlier and submitted the error to the mods. I'm sure they would have corrected it. Just like they catch the dupes. Or something.

Heh

"Baher Al Hakim writes "The Street suggests in a recent article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google, to a"

Wow! The submitter of the story stopped at the same place all the commentors would have stopped at.

Re:Are itunes songs acoustically altered?

You are on crack only to the degree that any compressed music will not sound as good as the source. If your source happens to be torrent or usenet for music, than I have noticed that sometimes songs are encoded with preset eq's and/or normalization where the bass is too high, which might explain your tinny argument.

Imagine something like google print

One of the things I could see google offer is the ability to search for songs by lyrics and additional meta data. I know a lot of times when I purchase music via itunes and I don't know the actual name of the song the first thing I do is search for "lyrics" followed by the phrase from the song.

Impressive

If I were Microsoft or one of the companies who use MS in some form (for example audio format like WMA), then i'd probably be shitting (pardon my french) bricks.

Pairing up the worlds most popular music service with the worlds most popular search engine is definitely a clever move by both parties, it can only serve to improve their customer bases. A symbiotic relationship if you will.

Bringing Intelligent Search to Music

Me: "That tune that goes 'tum te tum badda badda tum tum"
Google (I'm feeling lucky): "Buy 'Pink Floyd: The Wall' from iTunes Music Store Now!"

I can't believe nobody has posted this yet...

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Re:to a...?

...to a broken/blocked keyboard maybe ?

Re:to a...?

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Re:to a...?

Oh, no! I get it! THEY GOT HIM! Somebody stuck him with a stake through the heart! Oh, this is so sad! CmdrTaco... I pine for you.

Hi, everybody. In memoriam of poor 'Taco, let's go back and revisit a few of my favorite 'Taco memories.

Baher Al Hakim writes...

Oh, that was great. And who could forget this one?

The Street suggests in a recent article that Apple is about to announce a deal with Google, to a...

Ah, we sure had some great times 'Taco. I'm gonna miss you bro.