Just recently, Apple updated its Apple Music app to add a feature that is technically impossible on the iPhone: saving music to a micro SD card for offline listening.
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On the retail end of things, Cook stressed the importance of the Chinese market, and said the company would open its 40th retail store in that country this year. Cook said that Apple Music for Android was a way of Apple testing the waters for bringing its services to other platforms, suggesting that there would be more ports in future.
Gurman talked about how Cook “noted his excitement over future products coming out of the software, services, and hardware divisions, while teasing some “far-off” hardware announcements coming beyond this year”.
It’s probably fair to assume that a majority of Apple Music’s 15 million+ subscribers own an iPhone or an iPad, but users of the Android app are getting something that iOS users will nearly certainly never see: SD card support.
When Apple rolled out Apple Music in June, it described the streaming music service as a “revolutionary” kind of 24/7 live, global radio station. The company is reportedly mulling plans to bring more of its software and services to the Android OS.
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Some of the forthcoming products from Apple include the much-rumored 4-inch iPhone 5SE handset; the iPad Air 3; and new band options for the Apple Watch smartwatch — all of which will likely be announced by Apple at a product launch event in March. Apple technically has three: Apple Music, the Move to iOS transfer tool and Beats Pill+. We don’t know at this point in the game, but it sure sounds promising for people like this writer, who are considering a move to iOS after years on the Android platform.
