I have no idea what Apple Music is. Do they want me to pay $10 a month for radio? I have no idea what the one more thing is.
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Apple Announces 'Apple Music' With 'Beats 1' Live Radio Station, Launches June 30 for $9.99/Month
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I am looking forward to the music app and i think its great that they are offering a package so that my whole family can have their own independent application!
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Apple now announcing the new Drake album will automatically show up on everyone's iPhone and delete the U2 album from last time.
Wait wait wait.. Is this thing still US only?!?!?!?!?!?
itunes radio was free.... apple music = 9.99 a month....
Samsung Music is launching tomorrow!
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So $9.99/month for everything Apple has? What happens to iTunes Match? They still want $25?
That's not going to work for me. That's way more than I normally spend on music.
I guess I'll be sticking to my 4 app setup for Music:
Pandora = radio
iTunes = the latest and newest of what I own
Spotify = music I want to listen to but don't own or want to buy
Google Music = cloud storage for downloading my library, but not on my device.
That's not going to work for me. That's way more than I normally spend on music.
I guess I'll be sticking to my 4 app setup for Music:
Pandora = radio
iTunes = the latest and newest of what I own
Spotify = music I want to listen to but don't own or want to buy
Google Music = cloud storage for downloading my library, but not on my device.
Just to clarify... This is basically Apple's version of spotify? So I essentially can stream any song I search for in the iTunes Store?
Siri integration -- if it works -- is a pretty cool way to find/play songs
I'm sticking to my Spotify... Spotify is great, why didn't Apple just buy Spotify??
That had to be the worst, most incoherent launch of a product I've ever seen Apple stumble through. It was awful. It made the hilariously inept Tidal launch appear brilliant in comparison.
It's good we get 3 months free to try it out, otherwise I don't see a reason to cancel the music service I have. If it only plays music similar to music you own, then I'm really not interested. I'm a person who also likes to listen to new music, something from artists I've never heard of before so I can experience new music from all kinds of genres. If this service can't provide that capability...not interested.
Music = I could't care less. Siri = winwinwin.
Definitely sounds good. I'm using Spotify but I'm willing to switch if this is as good as it sounds.
Of note - I notice the post mentions they're starting their own lovely radio station? Uh, maybe I'm wrong but I can see this being one of those things that Apple quietly kills off a year from now when they realise that nobody actually listens to it, and that people are perfectly happy just building their own playlists in their Spotify clone.
Of note - I notice the post mentions they're starting their own lovely radio station? Uh, maybe I'm wrong but I can see this being one of those things that Apple quietly kills off a year from now when they realise that nobody actually listens to it, and that people are perfectly happy just building their own playlists in their Spotify clone.
The reason why they laughed was because the way he delivered the 3 points about Apple Music was in a very similar fashion to how Steve Jobs introduced the IPhone, when he said it would be three revolutionary products but turned out to be just one.
The radio portion, Beats 1, is still free.
I wont say terrible - Look at Tim Cook at the beginning - I say Room for improvement!
I think the smartest thing they showed today was that Apple Music will be on Android.
For me, Siri integration is the one thing that has been missing in all of the streaming music services and is the one thing that helps set Apple Music apart from the rest.
I don't know whether it's the absolute worst, but it's the first I can remember with no hardware announcements. I really like the improvements to OS X and iOS. That for me was the best part of the keynote (which was an unusually long 2.5 hours!). But Apple Music ... meh. I'm not sold on it. I thought it was interesting that Cue didn't announce the price till the very end; up till that point, they all made it sound as if it was simply taking the place of iTunes Radio. I started thinking that it would be free on any Apple device. THAT would have been huge!
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Zane said he was broadcasting to 100 countries, so the radio bit at least isn't just US.
Does this replace iTunes Radio? That was free! Also, I'm still not sure about the value of streaming vs purchasing, but perhaps if I had a better signal everywhere I go - including aeroplanes - I might change my mind.
Do I get a discount with iTunes Match? If not I think I'll cancel iTunes Match and just get Apple Music
Since you might not have been paying attention, yes, they want you to pay $10 a month for the radio in your car.
You get FM radio, and you even get AM radio. No data connection necessary. You just use the antenna that's part of your car. Here's the one more thing: you get to listen to all the songs and talk shows broadcasted over the airwaves, 24/7!