Google Music finally opened up, offering both a locker service and a store, along with a limitedability to share songs, for free, with Google+ users.
谷歌音乐"(Google Music)终于面世了，它既提供云存储服务，也是一个在线音乐商店，而且Google+用户还能在一定程度上免费共享音乐。
If you'd like to, you can compare Google's store and locker to Apple's long-established iTunes store and just-launched iTunes Match locker. For instance, Google's locker is free and lets you store 20,000 songs. Apple's locker costs $25 a year and lets you store 25,000 songs. Warner Music Group songs aren't available at Google's store but are at Apple's. Etc.
如果愿意，你可以把谷歌公司的音乐商店和云存储服务与苹果公司(Apple)早就推出的iTunes在线音乐商店和刚刚面世的iTunes Match云存储服务做一比较。比如说，谷歌的云服务是免费的，可以存2万首歌，而苹果的云服务每年要花25美元，可以存储2.5万首歌。华纳音乐集团(Warner Music Group)发行的歌曲在谷歌音乐商店没有，而在苹果音乐商店里有。
[UPDATE: Because at least one of you asked - Google's service doesn't offer the 'Match' feature that Apple does, which means that users will have to upload every song they want to access from Google's locker. For a user with a decent-sized library and a conventional residential broadband connection, that process could take a very long time, perhaps several days.]
（因为有读者询问，特将信息更新如下：谷歌的云存储没有苹果那样的"匹配"(Match)功能，用户必须自己向谷歌的云端上传想要存储的歌曲。对资料库内歌曲较多且使用传统家庭宽带的用户来说，这一过程会花费很长时间，可能需要好几天。）
But that's sort of missing the point, because few people will make that comparison in the real world.
不过，这种比较可能失之偏颇，因为在现实世界中，很少有人会去做这种比较。
Instead, real people will make a simple non-decision: If they use an Android phone, they can't use Apple's store or locker. So now they can use Google's. And while it will be theoretically possible for iPhone users to use Google's store and locker, it will involve some kludgy sidesteps that won't appeal to mainstream users.
事实上，人们会做一个简单至极的选择：如果他们用的是安卓(Android)手机，就不能使用苹果的音乐商店和云存储，现在他们可以直接去用谷歌的服务。虽然iPhone用户理论上可以使用谷歌的音乐商店和云存储，但涉及一些技术上的规避，主流用户不会愿意这么做。
And that's about it. In the end, this isn't about helping Google 'catch up to iTunes'
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