
You can also connect Nexus Q to a TV and use it as a playback vehicle for YouTube and videos rented from Google Movies. This system allows anyone with a Google Music collection to instantaneously contribute to, and manipulate, the queue. Each song buffers in a smidgen of built-in memory, then pipes directly to standalone speakers or the A/V receiver of a home entertainment system.


Instead of running content off local storage (the device includes none whatsoever), Nexus Q uses Wi-Fi to pull down audio tracks from the ether of Google Music. This unique sharing scheme directly ties into Google’s cloud. I'm at Google, in a cramped electronics lab on the second floor of Building 44.

Once, to make his point, Britt reminds me of record parties, those 1970s gatherings where teenagers lugged their music to friends' houses in milk crates.īut I am not at Apple. In our two hours together, with his partner Matt Hershenson, they bring up the intersection of technology and liberal arts - as Apple’s Steve Jobs liked to call it - half a dozen times.
