Why is it that Google doesn't provide an iTunes U type of service? This has been the biggest, or perhaps the only, disappointment for me in transitioning from iOS. I know there is TunesVewer but it's vastly inferior to the iOS experience since it just hacks into Apple's system. Why wouldn't Google provide the same service though? The lectures are provided free of charge anyway by the universities and are usually also on YouTube or the official university websites. I'd never have thought Apple would be kicking Google's ass in education of all things. The whole venture is much more in the spirit of Android in the first place than Apple. I just don't get it. Any insights?
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Why no iTunes U type service from Google?
- Thread starter phsopher
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GuitarG20
Clueless Senior Member
I don't know if the universities have actually offered the lectures to google. As public as they may be, google won't do it unless they know they can put out a seamless product, and unless the universities are offering them to google, they don't have a way of procuring them except for ripping them from youtube or iTunes, which they won't do.
Why wouldn't Google themselves approach universities? But ok, why is it that the universities don't offer the lectures to Google? They upload them to YouTube (at least Standford, Yale and MIT do, I'm sure others as well). YouTube is owned by Google so clearly the universities don't have a problem with Google hosting the material. It would seem to me to be a mutually beneficial relationship: the universities would get access to new users and Google would have another shiny service to tempt new customers with.
I think you give them way too much credit. 10% malware apps in the Play Store doesn't sound like a 'seamless product' to me...