Google has entered the digital music market in China this week with the introduction of a free but ad-supported service. Google is facing criticism due to this unpopular decision as such a music service is a bid to catch up with Baidu, A big compititor in chinese market holding 60% of market share, who already have an online music presence and this is something admitted by Google China president Lee Kai-Fu.
Music will be available from Sony Music, Warner Music, EMI, and Universal with 350,000 tracks.
Google is not planning to expand this free service outside of China.
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As a resident of China, and a previous user of Baidu, this is interesting news.
ReplyDeleteI can understand why Google have no plans to extend this service outside of China; that's pretty obvious, but I'm not sure how they're able to introduce this inside China! Surely copyright laws are worldwide (even if China is somewhat slack at abiding by them!)?!? Emma