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'Industry Scuttlebutt' Hints Apple May Be Planning February Revamp for Beats Music
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Music.
Everything is done in the appropriately named Music app. Kill the iTunes store app. Rename iTunes on OS X to Music. Remove videos and give it it's own app like iBooks.
Would solve the weirdness of the same icon on iOS and OS X being called different names and doing different things, and that the music icon will be strictly for music.
Everything is done in the appropriately named Music app. Kill the iTunes store app. Rename iTunes on OS X to Music. Remove videos and give it it's own app like iBooks.
Would solve the weirdness of the same icon on iOS and OS X being called different names and doing different things, and that the music icon will be strictly for music.
It'll be called Apple Beats 
apple:Beats) and probably be a standalone app with many more features and a new high quality flac-like lossless audio format
apple:Beats) and probably be a standalone app with many more features and a new high quality flac-like lossless audio format 
But for those who sync their iPhone and iPad content (apps, contacts, calendars, etc.) through iTunes... are they going to be told to sync their iPhone to "Music"?
The iTunes application on OSX is a very beefy app that does A LOT of things. For better or worse, stuff just kept getting added over the years.
Mad Mac Maniac
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I think we can classify this under the "no duh" file.
Did anyone actually thing Apple was going to buy beats and not align their products/services with apple's corporate strategy?
Did anyone actually thing Apple was going to buy beats and not align their products/services with apple's corporate strategy?
Revamp "iSync", it's there, has been well before the iPhone as a conduit for syncing Contacts, Calendars, etc. in OS X with non-Apple devices.
A lot of us at Apple agree, iTunes should be "stripped down" to music. iBooks has its own bookstore, iMovie could handle Movie and Television purchases, the OS X App Store could bridge with iOS App's, allowing iSync to handle syncing.
For those of us using iTunes 12 beta, notice how this is halfway achieved? Each store is now accessed by the category you are in, that is you cannot access the Movie Store if you're in the Music section in iTunes.
The only issue would be non-OS X systems, and that is why Apple has not changed iTunes. Engineers would have to create MS counterparts for iMovie, iBooks, App's, etc. unless they leave iTunes for Windows untouched (which they could).
Mad Mac Maniac
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Yes, TechCrunch did yesterday. LOL.
Well... So there are 4 feasible options of what Apple could do with beats music (applies to any acquisition)
1) kill it entirely. don't use it
2) kill the branding, but incorporoate its features into your own services
3) Keep the branding, but modify the service in accoradance with your corporate strategy
4) keep the service, completely unchanged. Allow the service to run independently
1 is idiotic. 4 is completely unlike apple. Either 2 or 3 are most obviuosly what Apple would do. But when you hear whispers about 2 it can sound an awful lot like 1. Heck, Apple media is so sensational that the official report could actually be 2, but then everyone blasts 1 accross the internet because it's a good headline (then burry the 2 details in the story)
autrefois
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I think I'm going to get business cards printed up with that title: Industry Scuttlebutt. Would love to see people's reactions.
Use it for the new music format that Bono wants to invent with Apple. "Yo homey, download this Beats track I made on my iPhab.
I'm guessing the problem is with the individual music companies here in the UK that want to protect their revenue.
Gotta say I'm digging subscription music. The only thing that sucks a little is content. Some artist (Black Keys/Coldplay/Radiohead/Beatles etc) don't have content or are not allowing new content.
If Apple can get all the artist to play ball this will be a serious coup and the way to go music wise.
I only have a few options in Canada that let you download the tracks to a device Xbox music, google play music all access, and spotify. Spotify has Zeppelin so a little better on the content front but I locked in with GPMAA at $7.99 so I'll be sticking with that for now. Spotify also doesn't have a web based setup which kind of hurts when I want to log on at work.
If apple brings the content at 9.99 a month or less I could switch.
If Apple can get all the artist to play ball this will be a serious coup and the way to go music wise.
I only have a few options in Canada that let you download the tracks to a device Xbox music, google play music all access, and spotify. Spotify has Zeppelin so a little better on the content front but I locked in with GPMAA at $7.99 so I'll be sticking with that for now. Spotify also doesn't have a web based setup which kind of hurts when I want to log on at work.
If apple brings the content at 9.99 a month or less I could switch.
I switched from Spotify to Beats after the acquisition. I'm a music nut. Main reason I switched - future Siri/Beats integration. Apple Tv - already happened. Beats native Airplay support.
Really need a desktop App.
iPad app desperately needs permanent search icon.
iTunes Match should come with Beats subscription.
Beats should know all about my iTunes library, like Google Play.
Really need a desktop App.
iPad app desperately needs permanent search icon.
iTunes Match should come with Beats subscription.
Beats should know all about my iTunes library, like Google Play.