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Apple Working on New Beats Music Service Integrated into OS X and iOS, Available on Android
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Whatever the plans are, I'm sure it'll be more than worth the $3B purchase price .... [/sarcasm]
Macrumors: Can you please start banning people who think that the words "features" and "bloat" are synonyms?
It would really improve your site.
It would really improve your site.
Yea... sorta. Do you really "own" the song you buy in iTunes? Kinda, kinda not. I can't really hand my brother a song I bought in iTunes. When I die, no one gets my iTunes collection. If I buy the cd (truly "owning" it), than I can do whatever I want etc.
Of course not. Apple IDs have liscensed one-time purchases associated with them. If you could merge them people would be reselling accounts with associated purchases and allowing others to get second hand liscenses, which is illegal.
Beats music, on the other hand, is a subscription service that requires a monthly payment for renting those liscences.
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Yes, I hear you. I still buy the CDs myself in most cases.
To that guys point though: it's a big difference between "renting" (streaming service) and "owning" music (lifetime lease or ripped CDs). Should he stop paying for Beats or any of the others, access to his music would cease. Should he pay the $1.29 per or less for some songs (or rip CDs), not paying an ongoing fee would still keep owned* music available to him.
He's trying to find fault with music being sold if Apple is going to roll out this Beats streaming service. I tried to remind him of the difference of renting vs. owning... and that not everyone wants to rent.
I see your point. I think maybe the "owning" thing is a different argument for another day, even though it seems we'd be on the same side.
Unrelated but OMG
This just in, in a stark break from Apple's tradition of thinner, smaller, lighter, Eddy Cue has apparently increased his head size by 10% while maintaining the same body size. He looks like a bobble head. (9to5 source article)
That photoshop is horrible.
Absolutely horrible. I swear it is so bad it looks almost intentional.
/can't unsee bad shop job. NSFW
On topic: Hopefully they can work out their rumored differences and bring a sweet new service to the public.
This just in, in a stark break from Apple's tradition of thinner, smaller, lighter, Eddy Cue has apparently increased his head size by 10% while maintaining the same body size. He looks like a bobble head. (9to5 source article)
That photoshop is horrible.
Absolutely horrible. I swear it is so bad it looks almost intentional./can't unsee bad shop job. NSFW
On topic: Hopefully they can work out their rumored differences and bring a sweet new service to the public.
I hope "in addition to", not "a replacement". I happen to like iTunes Radio's cost vs. features ratio. I would not be happy moving to a US$7.99 / month service when all I want is the service they provide for the US$24.99 / year.
But Apple should go after those who want the more sophisticated service and are willing Tor play the higher price for it.
Why would you need to merge Apple IDs? You should only have one. Why did you make another one? I don't see people having multiple Facebook accounts unless they too many friends.
Beats Music by Apple is going to reset consumer expectations of what a true digital music subscription service should be. I predict Spotify and Rdio will cease to exist within 2 years. Beats Music will have the best user experience anywhere. It will have the biggest library of music. And it will set standards that nobody else in this industry will ever come close to matching.
Actually, there's a feature in iTunes where you can convert everything you have to MP3, then pass it along to whoever you want.
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I'm sure that's exactly what they plan to do.
If it does not appear in the uk by April, I will be cancelling my music match subscription.
Apple should have bought them instead of Beats. I really think part of Apple buying Beats was to use Iovine in the renegotiations of the music contracts when the time comes. Jobs used to do that and I think Cook knows he's out of this league there.
Two years? Nop, at most, 2 months after the best streaming service in the whole Universe history is released
maybe they'll also let us change our iTunes email to an apple one
