One of the best things about Apple Music is the sheer amount of great music you can find on the service.
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With the Apple £1/$1 conversion, Spotify Premium now costs $13/£13 a month from the App Store. While Apple has not released comparable figures, Apple Music is installed automatically on the 40% of iPhones that run the latest software, iOS 8.4, and it is free for the first three months.
Apple Music offers a Family plan subscription wherein up to six people can enroll for just $15 per month.
Apple Music is finally live, but can it really dominate all the other music streaming services that have already established themselves in the market?
The service is created to run in parallel with iTunes, so that the well-known service from Apple that has been running since 2003 is not obsolete. After all, Apple is the company which managed to completely transform the way the world bought and listened to music, back in 2003.
It is very interesting to see Spotify take such an aggressive stance against Apple, especially when it doesn’t yet seem as though Spotify has felt the sting from Apple Music.
A tab called Connect is much like Instagram, in that it’s a social network where artists can post pictures, songs or videos, and users can comment or share them.
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On iPhone or iPad, you’ll need to up open up the Music app and tap the pink head in the top left hand corner. This gives the app a huge advantage, since sometimes you just don’t have a Wi-Fi signal, or you are out of network data. In fact, Apple Music’s 24-hour radio station that broadcasts live was not considered to be a successful move. It has also been reported that Facebook will introduce a system similar to YouTube’s Content ID for their videos that would help rights-holders get paid when user-uploaded videos feature copyrighted music. Users in more than 100 countries will be able to access the services of this application by the end of July.
