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It will be available this summer for Apple devices and Windows PCs, and in a break from Apple's usual practice, it will also be released as an app for Android devices this fall. With a lengthy three-month free trial, a $15-a-month plan for up to six family members, and the ability to push the app to hundreds of millions of iPhone and iPad users, the launch could mark a major milestone in digital music.īesides offering the new subscription plan, the app also will continue to allow download purchases from iTunes.
The service represents a chance for Apple to come from behind in a digital music field that it once led. Here's a look at the new features Apple announced: Apple Music Susan Prescott, Apple vice-president of product management and marketing, speaks about the company's new app for news, with a personalized feed based on your interests and choices. But perhaps more importantly, they may help keep customers from defecting to rivals like Google, which showed off new features for its competing Android mobile software at its event last month. Some of the new features could provide new profits for the tech powerhouse. While many companies make smartphones and computers, "Apple's crown jewels are its software and online services," said analyst Daniel Ives, who follows tech companies for FBR Capital Markets.
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Executives also mentioned a new streaming TV service that Apple is reportedly hoping to announce later this year.Īnalysts say the new services and upgrades, which will be available when Apple releases free updates to its iOS and Mac OS software this fall, are part of a broader strategy to make Apple's devices indispensable. The new features including enhancements to Siri, the company's voice-activated digital assistant, as well as Apple Pay, Apple Maps and the Apple Watch.
The music service was the biggest news of the company's five-day conference, but Apple also announced a host of new upgrades and services coming later this year to the operating software for its popular iPhones, iPads and Mac computers. The maker of iPods and iPhones introduced Apple Music, its new streaming-music service. Musician Drake gestures during the conference Monday.