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As part of Apple's revamp of its recently acquired Beats Music streaming service, the company plans to bundle Beats directly into iOS, reports Financial Times.
Apple will bundle the subscription music service it acquired from Beats into its iOS operating system early next year, instantly making it available on hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads - and ramping up pressure on Spotify, the market leader in music streaming.
The inclusion of the paid-for Beats service in an iOS software update could happen as early as March, according to people familiar with the situation.

The report notes that Beats will continue to be a paid service and will likely be rebranded under the iTunes umbrella. The move could come alongside the launch of the Apple Watch, with users able to push Beats music from their iPhones to the wearable device.

While Apple has praised the Beats Music model, highlighting the curation aspect of the service as a major reason for acquiring the company, Beats has struggled to gain subscribers. Estimates put Beats' subscriber base at just 110,000, dwarfed by several other services such as Spotify that offer both free and paid options. Apple's acquisition of Beats has been seen as major avenue to boost interest in the service, but so far cross-promotion has been fairly limited. A revamp of Beats under the iTunes banner and including access directly in iOS may, however, substantially improve customer interest.

Still, Apple has struggled with streaming music in its first foray with the ad-supported iTunes Radio. The service is still available only in the United States and Australia despite rumors of a significant international expansion for early 2014, and the service has reportedly underperformed Apple's goals of driving listeners to purchase tracks from the iTunes Store. But with a three-pronged strategy of traditional iTunes Store purchases, ad-supported iTunes Radio streaming and a subscription Beats service all integrated on iOS, Apple may finally be in a position to satisfy many music listeners.

Article Link: Beats Music to Be Bundled Into iOS Early Next Year, Will Remain Paid Subscription Service
 
Please no. Please stop forcing more bundled apps with iOS.

At the very least, Apple should include a delete function for stock apps we don't want/need. Then this becomes a non-issue, and the people who want Beats can be happy, while the people who don't want it are not affected.
 
Oh good

Another App that I never use and can't delete.

I mean I don't mind if apple includes things with iOS. I'm sure it's great for those that want it, but I'm not interested in a paid subscription music service. I just want the ability to delete or at least hide apps that I never use. Sure I can puit it is a folder but it's still clutter.
 
apple is turning into Microsoft with their forced bundling!

lol what's next apple? Stickers on your iPhone saying A8 chip inside?!
 
What a waste of space. Apple what makes you think that we'll pay for this streaming service if it's included with the OS? Just get rid of ITunes Radio and replace it with Beats and maybe I'll use it
 
This would be worse than having Newsstand, iBooks or the Podcast app on my iPhone, cause I am living outside of US and Beats Music isn't available in my country.
 
Are we talking standalone app or bundled as in possibly integrated in the music app? Either way, the app would get sent to my crap folder or it would get sent out of my view like iTunes radio.
 
Now that, that should be removable. They better not force that as a required and non-removable app. Especially not if they're still offering 16GB as the entry level storage.
 
As long as they'll make it available to the rest of the freakin' world. The longer the wait, the harder it will be to make people switch from Spotify, at least here in Europe. I guess Sweden will never switch, though.
 
Beats, meet Newstand and Health. you guys gonna have fun in my "Not Using" folder on the last page of my Home Screen just created for it..
 
Unlikely to be bundled with the OS like the Tips app is, as any updates to the app require an update to the OS. Unless I am missing something?
 
Quit chewing up my storage space!

Maybe if they make 32 GB the bottom end I wouldn't take such issue.
 
If you can download this App from the App store, I would assume it would be deletable if you didn't want it. Just like the iLife apps that are "bundled", you can delete those.

Seriously, the amount of whining on these threads anytime Apple does or doesn't do something (or is "rumored" to do something) is appalling.
 
Millions of american users.

Also that app is so ugly it looks like something made for android
 
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Why not just replace iTunes Radio in the Music app with this? We don't need another bundled app that can't be deleted.

or they could integrate the Beats Music service into iTunes Radio. So that within iTunes Radio you have the choice of going free ad-based or paid subscription-based.
 
I'm really tired of those ********* bundled "apps"...

There should be an option to hide the "Camera" icon from the Springboard (you can access it from the control center anyway), "Maps" if you don't use it, "Videos", "Stockings", "Game Center", "Kiosk", "iTunes Store" and a BIIIIG excetera... especially that really useless "TIPS" app... "FaceTime", "Calculator", etc. etc. etc.

It also should be illegal to include Beats Music inside iOS... it's not fair competition (just like the EU did before with Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser integrated into Windows)...
 
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