Google and Apple have been doing battle for several years now in a wide variety of services. The battle between Android (News - Alert) and the iPhone have been well publicized and hard fought. Apple even won a recent lawsuit against one of the makers of Android products, stopping them from selling the Galaxy Tab in Australia. 

Now Google has taken the fight to Apple (News - Alert) by launching their own music service, a direct rival to iTunes. Google will be selling songs on the Android market for the first time and will begin by offering the songs in the United States, with an expected expansion soon.

Google (News - Alert) has been taking steps to devote their attention to products which they believe will be in the best interest of their business over the last few months. They've also been cutting the support for other services much the same way other companies cut dead weight. While most thought that was an attempt to focus on Google+ its becoming apparent that there are many different services the internet giant wants to focus on. 

Maybe because they were able to see where iTunes went wrong, it appears that Google has gotten a leg up on Apple with the ability for users to share music and listen to their songs wherever they are. Google will be selling songs on the Android Market for either $0.69, $0.99 or $1.29, the same price points that iTunes touts. Google will also be offering a wide variety of free songs from big time artists like Coldplay and the Rolling Stones. 

Google Music users will also be able to listen to their friends' songs one time using Google+, a feature that iTunes has been reluctant to use. Google was also quick to point out that while the recently launched “iTunes Match” will cost users $25 a year to use, their music service will hold as many as 20,000 songs in the cloud absolutely free. Google's director of digital content, Jamie Rosenberg took an open shot at iTunes when he said, “Other cloud music services think you have to pay to listen to music you already own. We don't.”