With Apple's huge source of iTunes-purchase information, it should be able to predict the songs you will like quite well to boot.
Meanwhile in other news, Carriers still have data caps and frown on streaming.
iTunes Match is not streaming - you download the entire track which you can play while downloading. Very different.
I don't get it, plays the wrong song how? It's not a streaming service
Go to music app...go,thru and pick albums and if there isn't a cloud next to the song it's on the device. If is a cloud is next to it just hit download all....not sure why its so difficult?
one more ping!
lately Apple is surrounded by flops and mistakes.
iTunes Match is not streaming - you download the entire track which you can play while downloading. Very different.
Hope it supports Sonos... Otherwise a non-starter for me.
In all honesty I don't see this being anything more then one more streaming service. Why would it be any better then Pandora? Even more so you now have tons of advanced subscription streaming services available including Spotify, MOG, Rdio, Sony's Music Unlimited etc. All of these have over 15 million songs and numbers are just growing. What makes these services hard for Apple to compete with is their cross platform operation. Spotify is available for almost every imaginable platform so you can enjoy your music everywhere. The rest of the providers are also following the trend to be extremely cross platform. I can't imagine Apple doing the same. Then again this might be Apple's push to have their iTunes like presence in every device imaginable.
I have to admit, I have fired up iTunes (on devices or desktop) maybe twice in the last year and a half. I've been using Spotify almost exclusively, and have saved so much money paying only $9 a month instead of $50-60 a month on buying albums.
If I can't make play lists and listen to songs I want to listen to without having just general radio stations... not interested.
Yes it is.I don't get it, plays the wrong song how? It's not a streaming service
Imagine streaming all content you own on iTunes like how pandora works but with music u own. Cutting out random songs u don't wanna hear
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Uh, seems you missed the core quote: "Consumer behavior (is) increasingly shifting toward access to a music catalog from ownership of specific songs." The whole point is to NOT limit to what you own (however loosely defined), but to rent general access to large libraries. It would be integrated into iTunes, alongside whatever you own.
1. iTunes has a superior managed music database with more content than the streaming services
2. Better integration with personally owned iTunes content
Another attempt at a service from Apple?
I wouldn't touch that with a 100ft. pole!
Is iTunes a big money maker now anyways? I always was under the assumption that it was just a tool to tie in an ecosystem for hardware sales.
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I think a Pandora service would be a major coup for Apple. In my friend group (18-25) almost no one buys music from iTunes anymore. People use Spotify on their computers but I don't know anyone that actually pays for it. Then on the go everyone uses Pandora on their iPhone or Android. Could be huge for Apple if they do it right.
Well. What's the point in Pandora ? It appears to be a popular program.
Apple wants to do the same thing using its huge music ecosystem .
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