Take on Google Music

TAKE OF THE DAY: “They’ve got to make their ecosystem appeal to consumers in a way that Amazon and Apple have. Personal cloud services are what’s going to drive the next wave of consumer adoption. So Google has to be playing here. But because they’re so late they have to be playing here in a unique way.” —media analyst Michael Gartenberg on Google Music, quoted in the N.Y. Times. (11/17a)