The latest Dev Channel release of Google Chrome for Chromebooks added two icons to the new tab page. They’re similar to the Chrome Web Store icon, but they’re for games and music. At the moment, the new icons don’t send users to some special pages, but it’s likely that they’ll be used to promote the games section from the Chrome Web Store and an updated Google Music.
As AllThingsD reports, “Google is finally close to launching a music service with help from the labels”. The news was confirmed by Andy Rubin, Google’s Senior Vice President of Mobile. “Google is in the very, very early phases of adding consumer products to our portfolio. The media industry didn’t see us as that. They saw us a search company,” Andy Rubin said, trying to explain why it takes so long to launch a music store and other similar services. At the moment, Google Music is an invite-only service that lets you upload up to 20,000 songs and stream them to any computer, iOS or Android device.
{ Thanks, Sean. }
