Google's cloud music service to launch without iOS support

Without supporting iOS devices!? Is this service a joke?!

..... but this actually make sense, Google is a hypocrite, never doubt about it.

Apple is going to release their cloud music service soon, so fxxk it Goo!!!

Until all of apples services are available on google devices, please stop crying every time google releases products that aren't available on apple devices. Thanks!

Wow so anyone using their service on a portable device will get less then half the battery of usual fail.

i wonder how many people needs to get access to a 20k-song music lib anytime of the day.

one major problem that Google, Amazon and Apple aren't facing up to is that the infrastructure can't handle cloud streaming services yet. It's really quite ridiculous when you imagine that the people who really want all their music at their disposal at once, are the ones who listen to it all day long. And the obvious limitations are 1) spotty bandwidth via 3G/4G service providers and 2) batteries can't handle 3G/4G connections for very long, especially while running flash at the same time. I predict the cloud services will fail slowly, though, which will only delay the realization that we need cheaper and larger flash memory instead. Too bad.

Oh, and uploading all my music? no way. Why not just bring back Simplify and let me stream from my own cloud at home?

Bad move... :/

This is funny. We've spent time & money downloading and ripping music, now it is proposed that we upload it again in order to stream it over the internet.

This is kinda absurd. How many people really need over, say, 8GB of music on the go? Why don't these people get an iPod classic anyway?
How will this streaming service perform on a moving car, in the subway, on an airplane, in a trip in the country or the mountains? If you want to stream something, why not online radio? There are quite a few good ones.
I sometimes feel we are pushed to have non-existing needs that are deployed on a sub-par infrastructure. We get overcharged for data over congested 3G networks and now we are supposed to stream music over it too?
Get iTunes to sync automatically when you connect your device (and disable automatic backups), make some smart playlists and from there it's just pluging a cord to your iThing. Plex & Zumocast for streaming from your computer - if you have it on when away (mine sleeps usually…).

Upload my music to Google so it can further analyze my taste and stream it from there? Meh!

i still don't understand this whole cloud music-streaming deal: surely the current infrastructure, with our tiny monthly data caps and huge contention just couldn't handle any kind of serious music listening (say a couple or more hours a day, at an acceptable quality/rate like 256K/s?)

all these cloud services being rolled out - but where's the bandwidth for them?

or am i missing something?

I've been using Spotify here in Australia for some months now - on my Sonos S5, iPhone, iPad, iMac and MBP. All of these supposed alternative offerings seem somewhat meh and decidedly 2nd rate in comparison.

Sounds like Google is run bya bunch of marketing douche bags. So be it, Google. I'll take my Apple elsewhere...

(Disclaimer: I hate google for everything but Gmail, voice, maps, and search)