Filip Novotny Apple considers the music service Beats Music to be the best on the market, but it has prepared a lot of changes for it. The thread did not remain dry on the structure of the entire service, the design of mobile applications, and the price tag should also change. She brought these and other previously unknown details today message server 9to5Mac.
Apple is reportedly going to use Beats Music content and technology, but much else is undergoing extensive changes at the moment. Probably the most fundamental change will be the end of the current application for iOS, instead of which Apple is going to integrate the service into the existing iTunes environment. At the same time, this does not mean only the application on the iPhone, but probably also on the iPad, Mac or Apple TV.
The new service will allow you to search the contents of Beats Music and the iTunes Store and allow you to add songs to your personal library. The whole service should also be built around it. Users will be able to save certain songs to their iOS or OS X devices, or keep all music in the cloud.
Apple is also looking to integrate streaming services such as Playlists, Activities or Mixes into the existing Music app. This means that the new version of Beats Music will continue to use the curated content that the original service boasted. Like its predecessor, Apple could use it to differentiate itself from the competition.
As for the price tag, it will be comparable to other services. A bit more affordable for an American customer, the opposite for a Czech customer. We would pay $7,99 (CZK 195) per month. For comparison, you will pay CZK 165 per month for the premium offer of the Rdio service.
Even Android users can enjoy this news. They will also be able to use the new service, naturally in the form of a separate application. The news that Apple is going to launch one of its services on a competing platform may seem shocking at first, but Tim Cook has not ruled out this possibility in the past. Two years ago he publicly stated, that if they saw the point in such a step, they would port the iOS application to Android. "We don't have a religious problem with it," he said at the D11 conference.
According to sources inside the company, Apple is not going to develop a version for Windows Phone (or Windows 10, if you prefer). In short, those who would like to use the service via the web application will also come. Apparently, it will not go through the transformation and it is not certain whether Apple will keep it in operation at all. Even if it did, at this point the browser version already lacks many of the features available in the mobile app, so it would be a very limited way to use the service.
As for the quality of the upcoming service or its launch date, 9to5Mac's sources provide only limited information. Both of these questions are related to the internal problems the Beats acquisition is said to have caused. Apple management decided to integrate the newly arrived company as much as possible, and as a result gave several key Beats figures high posts.
The fact that an employee of "another company" was given preference for an important job position over a long-term employee of Apple understandably caused some disillusionment in the company. "It's not very good with the Beats integration," said one unnamed employee.
The problem is also the not entirely clear vision of the company's bosses. Apple was originally going to launch the revamped streaming service in March this year, but now there is more talk of June and an event called WWDC. The company's management has not yet commented on the details or the expected release date.
That still leaves several big unanswered questions. The two most important: "What will Apple's streaming service be called?" and "Will it reach the Czech Republic and its surroundings in this millennium?"
Something from Apple for Android? Hell froze over :D
On the other hand, Apple could boast that the only proper app for Android is its own, as it once claimed about iTunes for Windows:-D
I don't know of a worse program than iTunes for Windows.
If I look, then the most popular are applications on the AppStore from Google. She is usually the opposite of what the so-called iOve sees
It was also meant as a joke. It's a shame that more and more readers (and especially on mobile websites) are so interested today that they see no other option than to punish every comment and blindly kick sheep.. ;)
have a nice day
It is often impossible to deduce irony from a written speech, therefore it depends a lot on the skill of the writer to write the text in such a way that EVERYONE understands it as irony. You didn't succeed.
The art is rather to respond without insults, if I am not sure of the meaning.. Once again, have a nice day and see you in the next fruitful discussion.
Yes, you should think and not offend. Or perhaps you see an insult somewhere in my speech? Where specifically? Thank you in advance for, perhaps for once, a constructive answer without personal invective.
PS: it is enough if you improve your "like ironic" speech and avoid similar misunderstandings. But it's easier to say that the fault lies elsewhere, isn't it.
so look again, there is only YouTube (Top10 free apps, US store)
I 'love' people who can't argue without invective
And where do you see the invective?
Otherwise, in the TOP10 of the Czech AppStore, there are GoogleDrive, Gmail, Dropbox, Google docs in the TOP10 productivity section.
I thought about it. But the moment the absence of a web version was mentioned, I immediately lost interest. The same reason I hardly ever use iMessage anymore. I just sit at work at my computer most of the week and I don't enjoy it, I can't even text people on my mobile... I also don't have the desire to listen to music from my mobile at work while I'm sitting at my computer... Thanks, I don't want to. Spotify sure does.
not only Spotify, but also GoogleMusic, Rdio mentioned in the article, or Deezer, which I am currently testing. But for now I seem to be happy with Spotify.
Yeh, I know about them. I tried Deezer, Rdio and Spotify... And I stayed with the last one, it also seemed to suit me the best.
Well, Apple would have to come with a real miracle to stop me from using Spotify.
exactly
The quality of the songs, for example, like on iTunes, would be enough for me. When I compare the same song bought from itunes and played in the highest quality on spotify, there is a noticeable difference.