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Google And Apple To Be Waging Music War Soon

11:10 a.m. · September 3, 2010 · by Andrew Winistorfer

While Apple's announcement of new iPods and Ping dominated the technology news cycle this week, Google was lining up implements for its inevitable war with Apple over music store sales, as the company was in serious talks with labels about launching Google Music and its Cloud-based music store. This comes with news that Google is activating almost as Android phones as Apple is activating iPhones each day (200,000 to 230,000), and that many music labels have been more than receptive to Google's version of a music Cloud, while they have been less enthusiastic to work on a Cloud with Apple.

I'm kind of unsure how a war between these two companies could play out? I mean, there's no way either will collapse due to music store fights between them. And seriously, Apple and Google, like you don't have enough control over everything already? For instance, I'm writing this on a MacBook through a Google web browser. [Daily Swarm]