iTunes is actually 200mb+QuickTime if you're on Windows which is 80mb, and the Google Music web client is nowhere near as functional as iTunes. Next you'll try and tell me Google Docs is just as functional as Word. Nothing I said was inaccurate, except that apparently Google matches music now. I'm curious as to how they do that without ponying up to the labels, but whatever.
I actually have a Google Music account that I use in addition to iTunes Match, so I'm actually one of the few here not bullshitting my knowledge on the topic. For the record, I would trade a basically unnoticeable quality boost for an extra 5000 tracks of space any day.
You also conveniently avoided the fact that to use the less functional Google Music web client to actually DO anything, you have to upload all your music first via the shitty uploader. Which still gives you no way of managing uploading except managing a list of folders by hand.
Whereas with iTunes Match, I can download an album, clean the tags in iTunes while it's matching, and it'll be available on my phone in seconds. With the 25000 song storage space I don't need to do any managing. It all fits with plenty of breathing room.
Nice completely inaccurate reply, though. Next time try downloading iTunes next time instead of assuming it's 4x the size it actually is. Which speaks volumes as to your level of knowledge on the topic BTW.
Oh, and of course there is this: http://cl.ly/image/2P3u2C04062V
So to even use Google Music in this far off, backwards land of Canada I have to maintain a separate Google account for that purpose that is set to United States.
Apple treats Canada like a first class citizen, typically the second or 3rd launch market. Google frequently forgets we even exist and took literally years to allow people to sell apps here, and they STILL haven't brought Google Music over. Meanwhile iTunes Match has been active in something to the tune of 50 countries for almost a year now, with matching available from day one.
