Wait, what? Different than Google Music?
> The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant has agreed to pay the labels between $25 million to $50 million each, as an incentive to get on board, depending on how many tracks consumers are storing.
sounds like what Apple is launching is also a music locker service akin to what Google Music is now, and not streaming arbitrary music. Perhaps the author is referring to when Google may remove the invite-only aspect for their service, or maybe just confused.
We will have to wait until Google opens the doors to everyone and how much – if anything – it will cost you.
It would be seriously cool if Google continued to offer this service for free. I suspect that they will offer the service with a generous limit for free after they are out of beta (I would imagine at least 2,500 songs – that would be roughly on par with Amazon’s free 20 GB) but I also suspect that they will start charging for the service if you want to upload more. We will have to wait and see.