Apple Music
iOS 8.4’s entire reason for existing is the aforementioned Apple Music streaming service.
It’s a somewhat extreme move to wrap it in a major iOS update given Apple could easily upgrade the existing Music app using the App Store, but that wouldn’t get it as much attention and Apple doesn’t take as modular an approach to iOS as Google GOOGL +0.62% does with Android. Given iOS’s comparative lack of fragmentation few will be complaining.
Apple Music will face up to Google Music and Spotify – Image credit Apple
Highlights include:
30M available tracks (enough to match Spotify and Google Music)
A three month free trial
$9.99pm single user cost and attention grabbing $14.99 Family Pack which gives up to 6 users access – a bundle not yet offered by Apple Music rivals
Human curated playlists
The Beats One live global radio station
‘Connect’ artist pages with artist updates and content sharing
25,000 free track uploads from your personal collection to access via Apple Music, this will be increased to 100,000 with the launch of iOS 9 in September
Where Apple Music does fall behind Spotify and Google Music is its use of 256kbps AAC files. AAC is a great compression format which is far superior to MP3, but Spotify and Google offer Ogg Vorbis which is a match for AAC and at a higher 320kbps bitrate.
Source: forbes
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