Google Music Beta sounds like Music Synergy, but not as awesome 14
Tue, 10 May 2011 6:30 pm EDT
So yesterday at the Google IO developer conference, the folks from Mountain View, California, unveiled their latest cloud-based solution for problems you weren’t aware you had. It’s called Music Beta by Google, and we have to admit that we’re fans of the concept. In fact, we’re such fans of it that we wrote and article about this very sort of tech making its way to the HP TouchPad. Except that the article that we wrote talked about smart algorithms that intelligently cache on the device the music that you’re likely to listen to. This Music Beta product that the Googlers just released instead syncs down to the device the music you’ve listened to recently and the music you’ve personally selected to be permanently synced. And being a Google solution, it all runs from the browser on your home computer.
We don’t yet have the full details of what exactly HP’s “Music Synergy” solution will be, but if that leaked presentation we got a few weeks back was any indication, HP’s solution might be a touch smarter than Google’s, though the Google solution certainly seems more flexible, with the ability to listen to your music from any browser, ala Amazon Cloud Player. Music Synergy, however, at least initially seems like it might be limited to the TouchPad, though we'd love to be wrong on that account. Either way, we’re excited for the competition and can’t wait to see what exactly HP brings to the table.
Source: Android Central
Source: Music Beta by Google
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And when webOS finally arrives on PCs, MusicSynergy will make its way to them as well.
Did anybody else think that those Chrome netbooks Google wants to rent to you for what was it, $30 a month? aren't gonna be able to do what webOS on a netbook can do for you?
Headline re-write: "Google Music Beta sounds like a product that HP may release in the coming weeks, but you can use it now (unlike the HP solution that hasn't even been confirmed to be in development) "
Exactly! Haha, HP keeps giving away their ideas before they even reach the market! They're giving time to Apple and Google to steal their ideas. Look at the NFC sharing that Google hacked onto their tablet just the other day!
Haha very true! HP's new motto "Innovation today, Results in 6 months"
Surely you mean "Google Music Beta sounds like a product that HP will release in the coming weeks but a very limited number of people in one single country can use as an invite-only beta now so Google can later claim that theirs was there first" :)
This is so frustrating - it doesn't matter how many fantastic ideas you have - if nobody knows about them, and if they aren't out - they don't matter. And the reality is that nobody knows about webOS - and everyone knows about Google.
I'm trying so desperately to sit back, trust and wait... but has anyone even seen advertising for the Veer? The most ad time webOS has gotten recently has been in cameo's for HP's other products...
WSJ and CNET did review the Veer. The WSJ piece was pseudo advertising but Bonnie Cha's review 2 CNET wasn't exactly good. Titled HP Veers off course and an editors rating of 2.5 out of 5. Not good.
So, the actual usable beta application, Google Music, is 'not as awesome' as the rumoured conjecture that is HP Music Synergy. Just like a Tesla roadster is 'not as awesome' as Tesla's theoretical ion-propelled aircraft.
More and more this site seems to be about 'the competition', playing catchup and general introspective high-fiving. I hope that the future of webOS is more than just promises which may be fulfilled x months down the line.
This may be a long shot and I may still be the only person with a Zune HD, but with HP and Microsoft having such a strong connection, what about a zune music app for WebOS so that it could share your music collection and all of the benefits from the Zune pass. Then when WebOS is on all of their computers with Windows 7/8/9/ it can pull right from that directory and there is some sort of transparency between the two OS. Just a thought. Streaming music is nice and all, but I'm imagining a huge drain on the battery, not to mention with the possibility of carriers charging even extra for heavy data use, that could be a big hit.
Pre 3 Verizon in June, its a lock.
Nice idea that will never happen because of a thing called Windows Phone 7. You want Zune on your phone, you can get one. Just not one running webOS. I agree with you, though, as the music app on the pre et all sux. The Zune HD interface is what started the whole Phone 7 thing and it's very nice. Yes, we also own several Zune HD's and several pre's. That will change sune.
Although the HP concept looks cooler in theory, Google has the service available. It will probably be refined through several updates by the time HP gets theirs out to the public.
I'm not trying to be a downer but I've learned my lesson about getting excited about announced features and updates until they are actually released and are in my hand. You can thank Palm/HP for my jaded outlook.
Sigh. The title of this article speaks volumes about what this site (and webOS in general) have become.
-> but not as awesome
haha, then show me _now_ the 'awesome' HP Music Synergy, or the most 'awesome' HP TouchPad.... :(
it is a shame, that all webos fans are so confident of the predominance of all the webos products, but in real life they can not be found.
We need an app for goole music cloud for palm pre plus ASAP