Epicenter - Mind Our Tech Business | Wired.com: Google unveiled Google Play on Tuesday, a grand plan to unify all the media it serves up from various portals to one recognizable brand identity and location. Call it Google’s iTunes moment.
Instead of separating media by category — Google Music, Android Market, Google Books — all of Google’s disparate sources will be accesible from a very iTunes-like storefront, accessible via the web or through apps on Android smartphones and tablets.
Contrast this with Apple’s iTunes model, a desktop application which pre-dates even the iPod (and all of mobile) and funnels all Apple-sold music, movies and books through one unified, idiot-proof storefront.