There is a rumor of Google getting ready to get into music download business. Reports from CNET suggest that the Google will soon launch a music service to compete with iTunes.
Apple and Google both want to dominate the mobile-phone market. ITunes has been a major part of Apple’s success in first iPods and then phones. The music industry has never been comfortable with Apple’s dominant hold on digital-music sales.
Google would be free to offer better terms to music companies, one of several ways it has available to it of making mischief for Apple, should it decide to join it in the business of digital tunes.