Ok this may be kinda obvious of a prediction but I think one day we'll have some sort of Google Music API. Today I just read that Google is coming out with a music search. Makes sense. They index and provide search for just about everything else. The original article is located here. I found it interesting that each artist will get their own page similar to how each company gets their own page on Google Finance.
The end goal of course being to sell music, thats right - a direct threat against Apple's iTunes. I for one absolutely love this idea. Competition breeds excellence. iTunes sucks, I'm sorry but it's true. I don't love the interface and adding new songs is just a plain and I could go on and on. A lot of times friends will ask me to help with them with some iTunes problem. Every time I just cringe. One would have to hope that Google's alternative will be better and cheaper.
I also found this to be very interesting, taken from the original article:
"Although Google won't get a share of song sales, it will collect revenue from advertising that will be shown with the search results, according to the people familiar with the plans"
Hmm, so Google won't be making money on the song sales themselves. That's interesting. So that means the original site will get the money, possibly offering referral money for affiliates? The whole thing sounds good.
Anyway, somehow out of all this I predict some sort of API that will allow us to tap into this Google music goodness. Heres hoping!
