One week in and the jury is still out on how Apple’s streaming service will affect the industry but Spotify seems to be doing pretty well out of it so far.
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See Also: Apple Music Available on iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple TV, PCs and Android for $9.99/mo. Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) will also reportedly pay royalties to rights holders and introduce a service for registering their content to halt piracy.
If you want to turn off auto-renewal and not get charged after the free trial, launch Apple Music on your iPhone, touch the silhouette icon on the top left, touch Show Apple ID, then touch Manage under Subscriptions. These include Beats 1 – a radio offering that features live broadcasts from DJs in Los Angeles, London and New York, curated playlists and the Connect artist-based social networking feature. At the moment, there are several music streaming service providers that consumers are already familiar with, one of which is Spotify. But if you’ve been out of the loop, or just waiting for Apple to make its play, Apple Music may end up being your sonic home. That happens frequently with me, as you listen to a song so many times before it starts to get monotonous and a newer song comes out that catches your ear even more anyways.
Music Ally quoted an unnamed source as saying: “It’s a mass land grab”. Apple’s $14.99-per-month plan works out to $2.50 user for six users, making Apple Music the low-priced leader in subscription services.
Choosing the best music streaming app for your device will depend on a number of things. Your Apple Music Membership should be active.
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Firstly, it is a free service: Unlike Apple, for example, people are not used to handing over their credit card details to the company. As if that is not enough, Apple’s App Store rules prevent companies, like Spotify, to redirect users to its own site to sign up at the lower (real) subscription rate.
