Google made a lot of announcements on the first day of its IO event in the US today, including the exciting Google Music service, Ice Cream Sandwich Android update and Android@home. But when will we see them in Australia?
Gus over at Lifehacker has taken an educated guess at the Australian rollout of the new Google services. It’s well worth reading his reasoning why, but he thinks we’ll see Google Music as the service scales up over time, we should see Ice Cream Sandwich some time around Q4 this year (or early next year) and we’ll almost positively never see the movie renting option due to local licensing deals.
Personally, I just hope this stuff arrives soon, especially Google Music. Having an online backup of all my tunes would be welcome security.
Paul
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 1:43 PMGoogle Music – Probably never
Ash
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 1:50 PMI don’t think I’ll hold my breath on anything from the Google IO coming to Australia.
We’re just not a big enough market for them to be that worried about getting the latest tech to us. *sigh*
Womp
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 6:18 PMNew Goodies? I’m still waiting for the old ones!
Where is Australia’s Google Voice?
A.A.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 10:57 PMYoutube’s movies pages is in Australia-but as you said no rentals (only 3 pages of free movies).
John
Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 5:36 AMI’m guessing google music is now available here. just received an email from google moments ago saying i’m invited.
kym
Friday, March 23, 2012 at 3:37 AMThe new galaxy phones need google music to run to full capacity. It must come, it has to come, otherwise why sell the phones here. It’s been two weeks and I’m still waiting for it to happen. Please all hope it does.
BobP
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 11:19 AMWhy can’t Google (they are in the communication industry) simply make an official statement about when Australia will get Music & play for tablets, etc, it would put to rest all these guesses.