{"id":8946,"date":"2010-05-21T22:27:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T22:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/um-did-google-just-quietly-launch-a-web-based\/"},"modified":"2010-05-21T22:27:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T22:27:27","slug":"um-did-google-just-quietly-launch-a-web-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/um-did-google-just-quietly-launch-a-web-based\/","title":{"rendered":"Um, Did Google Just Quietly Launch A Web-Based iTunes Competitor? Yep."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/05\/20\/um-did-google-just-quietly-launch-a-web-based-itunes-competitor-yep\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader'>Um, Did Google Just Quietly Launch A Web-Based iTunes Competitor? Yep.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>There were a couple of pretty big developments at the recent Google I\/O conference:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 \u2014 and have it automatically download on your Android devices too. But that\u2019s not all. Gundotra also showed off a new section of the Market \u2014 Music. Yes, an iTunes competitor on the web from Google.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Details are sparse at the moment, but here\u2019s 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\u2019s iTunes, over the web, with auto-syncing. No word on who the partners are for this, what the prices will be, etc. Undoubtedly, we\u2019ll hear more about that soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um, Did Google Just Quietly Launch A Web-Based iTunes Competitor? Yep. There were a couple of pretty big developments at the recent Google I\/O conference: 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/21\/um-did-google-just-quietly-launch-a-web-based\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Um, Did Google Just Quietly Launch A Web-Based iTunes Competitor? Yep.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}