Google Will Acquire Spotify
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Google Will Acquire Spotify
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Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify
#2Spotify is an app you have to download, right? Google builds web apps. Why would they want this?
The author didn't give any reasons that seemed very compelling to me.
Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify
#3It will be hard for Google to acquire Spotify, major music labels have a chunk of spotify pie and they won't be easily ready to let Google control what might be their future business model
Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify
#4That's the most linkbait title I've ever read.
Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify
#5That's the most linkbait title I've ever read.
Definitely up there in the top 5 of linkbait titles.
Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify
#6It will be hard for Google to acquire Spotify, major music labels have a chunk of spotify pie and they won't be easily ready to let Google control what might be their future business model
It's also fairly commonplace that the licenses between music services and music labels don't transfer if the music service is purchased by another company.
The question, then, is why would Google want to buy a company who's (arguably) most important assest was just made null and void?
Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify
#7That's the most linkbait title I've ever read.
Maybe someone could add a "speculation" or "prediction" tag to the title, because so far it's looking like an actual fact.
Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify
#8Spotify is an app you have to download, right? Google builds web apps. Why would they want this? The author didn't give any reasons that seemed very compelling to me.
Picasa is an app you have to download, Google Earth (Keyhole) too.
Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify
#9I remember someone from Google saying about Microsoft-Skype acquisition that "Google is not interested in peer to peer solutions".
So I'd say it's unlikely to be true
Re: Google Will Acquire Spotify
#10I hope not.