Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Sony Music CEO Confirms 'Apple Music' Unveiling at WWDC
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
And that's a good thing? Canceling the partnership over some petty BS? Everyone knew it was coming anyways.
Second, you have no idea what Steve would have done. Everyone acts like they were friends with Steve.
Wow, that leak...and so close. That guy's gonna get a slap on the hand for sure! What made him think it would be okay to post that image which clearly confirms an announcement which is now just hours away?
Oh I can see it now! "Introducing Apple Music! Starting in the US, going international *bumbles*later on*bumbles*
Although, I am looking forward to an Apple Pay UK announcement.
So you prefer to steal material rather than paying for music and movies? Or just and exclusively watching Netflix/Hulu and going to the cinema?
If I was an artist I would like to get my salary, wouldn't you? What if torrented your work and don't pay you at the end the month, how would you feel about that?
Apple and spotify made be a better person I haven't illegally downloaded music in 10 years. I buy the special ones trough iTunes that aren't on spotify premium (yeah I pay the artists with 10 bucks a month, also for the no ads and better quality)
But I amid....movies is another thing, the REAL blockbusters I see at the cinema like star wars , the hobbit, etc. but when a movie comes out I want to see it now not in a few weeks or months. So the other new movies I still download illegally. And the great old movies I buy on iTunes there mine,legal. So what for dorm, I'm not switching to google, ever! So I don't care. But when new movies are directly available on iTunes, I never download movies again. Just like iTunes and spotify did for music at least for me.
The streaming vs. purchasing debates are as pointless and weak as the digital vs. physical debates were 12 years ago. It all comes down the role music plays in your day to day life, the way you consume it, and the way you like to discover new music (if, indeed, you even wish to discover new music).
There is no one size fits all. Apple will not abandon the iTunes Store, you do NOT have to use the streaming service. The streaming service will evolve over time to address most if not all complaints, and in another decade none of this will matter.
There is no one size fits all. Apple will not abandon the iTunes Store, you do NOT have to use the streaming service. The streaming service will evolve over time to address most if not all complaints, and in another decade none of this will matter.
I pay for all my music separately. I can't see the justification of paying monthly when some months I might not even listen to that much music. The same as why I won't follow Adobe's silly subscription model, some months I might not even use a certain piece of software yet I still have to hand over money for that month.
It's going to hard to not subscribe to xbox music (got an xbox one) if they do go US only as it probably won't come to Canada for at least a year.
Seriously?? You truly think a CEO of a major corporation will get a slap on the hand by Apple? Yeah right. Nothing will happen. This is big business. This isn't you telling a family secret and your parents find out and scold you for it.
Yawn. Relaunching iTunes radio as a different brand isn't going to change the fact that music has become monetized into oblivion. Instead of focusing on the future, Apple focuses its services on the past. As soon as they pulled the updated AppleTV this WWDC because one of the biggest busts in recent history.
You mean like when Microsoft removed the Start Button from in Windows 8, recognized their customers wanted it and put it back in Windows 10 and called it "innovation"?
Well the steaming services have the option for Offline listening, or were you unaware of that fact? Apple's one will probably offer this too.....
From all the talk, it's going to be US, Canada, UK & Europe at the same time. Which may not be until iOS9 launches to the public. In the beta, it may just be US & Australia, since they have iTunes Radio... We will see tomorrow though!
As long as they say Canada as one of the launch countries, then i'm sold and i'll wait. If they don't have Canada as one of the launch countries, then i'll file it under never going to happen category, just like iTunes radio never happened in Canada.
iTunes Radio didn't happen in the UK either. It looks like it got derailed as part of the Beats acquisition and Apple Music development.
I don't get people like this. It's like the marathoner that celebrates by raising his hands 1/4 mile from the finish line and trip and have the entire field dodge him on the ground as they cross the finish line ahead of him.
It also steals his own thunder as he is announced at WWDC.
Along with classless, it's also dumb.
about the same price in the states with iTunes....but then I've already noted that I will continue to use sites like MP3Million or ivave way before I'd ever pay that much. $.05 per song or about $1.10 for an album. I bought 4 full albums last week after the CMA's and spent about $5 US.
Prices overall in the US Need to come way down IMO.
Subs for music only starts making sense when your spend more than $10/mo on new music.
But, but, haters keep telling me my computers always have old, outdated components in them...
Well that's not true, since you cared enough to read the article and then post in the comments thread.....