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iOS 8.4 Launching at 8 AM Pacific Tuesday, Beats 1 Goes Live at 9 AM [Updated]

CFreymarc said:
Trent, good to see you move into the third phase or your career. Those times backstage at Shoreline were fun.

Now, who will be the first artist to come in on the "Apple Music Wave" before the end of the year?
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Hopefully me! ;)

I just checked, and all of my music projects on my label have been verified for Apple Music's "Connect" (and I'll already be streaming on Apple Music proper on launch.) So, looking forward to trying Connect out; putting out behind the scenes videos, blog posts, etc.
 
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genshi said:
Hopefully me! ;)

I just checked, and all of my music projects on my label have been verified for Apple Music's "Connect" (and I'll already be streaming on Apple Music proper on launch.) So, looking forward to trying Connect out; putting out behind the scenes videos, blog posts, etc.
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It's still not clear how this works but if Apple is smart, they'll enable Apple Music Connect to automatically post to Twitter and Facebook pages so that artists and/or their record labels will use Connect by default to post to their other social media outlets. One of the failures of Ping was that it was siloed and made artists manage yet another social media platform. Ping could never compete with the established players and was largely ignored.
 
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ipedro said:
It's still not clear how this works but if Apple is smart, they'll enable Apple Music Connect to automatically post to Twitter and Facebook pages so that artists and/or their record labels will use Connect by default to post to their other social media outlets. One of the failures of Ping was that it was siloed and made artists manage yet another social media platform. Ping could never compete with the established players and was largely ignored.
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I can see it now. The shuckers / con artists / dillitants whom were "web ranking experts" to "app store ranking experts" to "group-funding experts" to now "Apple Music promotion experts" by the time the year is out.
 
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DakotaGuy said:
Probably the biggest issue with Apple Music is at $9.99 a month there just isn't a lot of profit to be made after all the royalties are paid. The good news for Apple is most of the other streaming companies are on pretty shaky ground financially and if Apple is aggressive enough, hopefully it can drive most of them out of business. After competition is reduced or eliminated it can raise the price to a more realistic $19.95-29.95 a month and make a killing on this service.
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That must be one of the most deluded and stupid posts I have read in a while... $20 or even worse $30 for streaming, after killing competition?

1.- Apple's rep would go down the toilet.
2.- Lawsuit.
3.- People would stop paying, as simple as that...
 
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DakotaGuy said:
..[snip].. After competition is reduced or eliminated it can raise the price to a more realistic $19.95-29.95 a month and make a killing on this service.
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FWIW, I have no interest in music streaming services. Since I am in the Apple Eco system, I listened as they explained their service. --NOT INTERESTED--. Why? $9.99 is more than I care to spend for a music service. $14.99 for a family is reasonable, but my wife and kids do not stream either (yet). I may be a single data point, but the idea is, even for someone who doesn't care about other offerings, $9.99 is too much. Do you think there's the slightest chance in h**l that Apple can make a go of it at $20 PER MONTH even without competition? Heck, as I understand it, the majority of streamers aren't paying anything, opting to go with ad driven options. No, $9.99 was arrived at not because it will force others out, but because that is the most people are willing to spend for such a service. They'll just have to win customers like others.
 
Mackinjosh said:
"Music needed a home, so we built one."

Hahahahahaha. You're only about 5 years late to the party this time, Apple.
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Just like they were late to the party making an MP3 player, Smartphone, a Tablet and a Watch? What happened when they entered those markets? Right. With Apple Music being built into hundreds of millions of iOS devices and Apple allowing people to try it for free for 3 months and the marketing power they have? Not to mention Apple releasing it for Android? Spotify could very well end up being another Blackberry.
 
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ArtOfWarfare said:
iOS 9 beta 2 has the same radio tab in the music app... I wonder why we need a new seed.

Also, I wonder why Apple even cares. Right now iOS 9 is in DEVELOPER beta. You shouldn't be installing it on your personal devices, and even though people definitely do, Apple shouldn't acknowledge them. By acknowledging them, they expose themselves to potential lawsuits if very bad things happen to devices as a result of the beta.
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Maybe they want developers to check it out too?
 
darkfiber said:
Just like they were late to the party making an MP3 player, Smartphone, a Tablet and a Watch? What happened when they entered those markets? Right. With Apple Music being built into hundreds of millions of iOS devices and Apple allowing people to try it for free for 3 months and the marketing power they have? Not to mention Apple releasing it for Android? Spotify could very well end up being another Blackberry.
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I don't think the Apple Watch has made an impact yet.
 
Soni Sanjay said:
That must be one of the most deluded and stupid posts I have read in a while... $20 or even worse $30 for streaming, after killing competition?

1.- Apple's rep would go down the toilet.
2.- Lawsuit.
3.- People would stop paying, as simple as that...
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I'm assuming the person who posted that has never heard of anti-trust laws. Apple Music isn't going to be for everybody. Spotify will still keep a bunch of subscribers. Then you'll probably have everybody else. Apple is offering what sounds like good integration with iTunes and iTunes libraries, and Spotify has been around offering streaming for a few years. Everybody else getting into the game, aside from Tidal, doesn't really offer much different. Plus artists seem to be supporting Apple Music a *little* bit more after the Taylor Swift thing, so it should be in good shape.

Prices will eventually go up, maybe to $11.99 or $12.99 per month. Eventually stuff will just cost more through inflation.
 
DakotaGuy said:
Probably the biggest issue with Apple Music is at $9.99 a month there just isn't a lot of profit to be made after all the royalties are paid. The good news for Apple is most of the other streaming companies are on pretty shaky ground financially and if Apple is aggressive enough, hopefully it can drive most of them out of business. After competition is reduced or eliminated it can raise the price to a more realistic $19.95-29.95 a month and make a killing on this service.
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This has to be one of the dumbest thing I've read on this site in a long time. And that's say a lot.

Let's say Apple could do what you suggest why would you want them too? That'll just screw us the consumers.
 
JobsGang said:
This has to be one of the dumbest thing I've read on this site in a long time. And that's say a lot.

Let's say Apple could do what you suggest why would you want them too? That'll just screw us the consumers.
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That's what any investor would want.
 
SMIDG3T said:
I know right? Now where's that guy who thinks Canada won't be getting Apple Music on the 30th?
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Well, they're clearly saying "starting on" and not "on". Not sure why everyone is interpreting this as "they're going to launch on June 30 in 100 countries" - linguistically, this is saying that they're starting their roll-out on June 30, meaning that at least some countries will be getting it after that. That in combination with the missing date on all country sites except the US makes it pretty clear to me that it'll be US-only, at least for a short while.
 
SMIDG3T said:
You might not be getting anything on Tuesday. Cue confirmed a new seed but didn't say when. My guess is you'll have to wait another 7 or 8 days until beta 3.
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I'd say there are good odds in a beta 3 tomorrow. Makes sense as they've done a beta a week apart before, plus need as many people on Apple Music for those figures. I'd say it's more likely than not....
 
Andrei90 said:
Antitrust with google, tidal, spotify, rdio, pandora, amazon among others as competition? LMAO
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The poster who suggested jacking up the prices justified it by saying Apple would have already put the competition out of business so there would be no alternatives.

DakotaGuy said:
Probably the biggest issue with Apple Music is at $9.99 a month there just isn't a lot of profit to be made after all the royalties are paid. The good news for Apple is most of the other streaming companies are on pretty shaky ground financially and if Apple is aggressive enough, hopefully it can drive most of them out of business. After competition is reduced or eliminated it can raise the price to a more realistic $19.95-29.95 a month and make a killing on this service.
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