[Androsynth]

I have two thoughts on this: 1-As has been mentioned multiple times on HN recently, many of the best minds of our generation are working on the algorithms that go into products like genius. They are basically the same as recomendations, online advertisements, etc. Its not surprising that theyre really damn good at this point. 2-Google probably doesnt care about the product itself, more likely it just wants to mine the data that gets put into it. Like goog-411, the service is just a conduit to acquire data.

[nl]

2-Google probably doesnt care about the product itself, more likely it just wants to mine the data that gets put into it. Like goog-411, the service is just a conduit to acquire data.

To what end? Unless Google is trying to make sure that when its software becomes sentient and takes over the world it has good taste in music (heh) I can't see much use for the data beyond building a recommender.

[bad_user]

Apple has data about purchased music from iTunes, with which it can do pretty damn good similarity scores. Google has no such data.