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Sony Music CEO Confirms Launch of Apple's Music Streaming Service
An anonymous reader writes: Sony Music CEO Doug Morris said in an interview that Apple will announce a new music streaming service tomorrow at its World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC). The new Apple Music service will include subscription streaming music features as well as a revamped iTunes Radio service. "What does Apple bring to this?" Morris said. "Well, they've got $178 billion in the bank. And they have 800 million credit cards in iTunes. Spotify has never really advertised because it's never been profitable. My guess is that Apple will promote this like crazy and I think that will have a halo effect on the streaming business. A rising tide will lift all boats," he added. "It's the beginning of an amazing moment for our industry."
Those people who already use something like Spotify or Pandora won't immediately switch, but I guess that Apple expects that there will be a very large number of people who have never used an Internet radio service that will sign up for Apple's service.
Reducing friction in the sign-up process will certainly make a difference and I expect that Apple will make it easy to sign up.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Actually, pretty much anything that Slashdot pans seems to make it big.
The iPod, Windows, Bill Gates, the iPhone, the iPad, the iWatch.
We like Nokia, Blackberry and god help us, Windows phone.
There is a lesson here....
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Exactly.
>"It's the beginning of an amazing moment for our industry"
More like additional fuel to end the "owning" of anything. Streaming is great when you are connected, don't mind someone watching what you are doing, and don't care that you can be fed things you don't want.
Look at the reaction to even the CONCEPT of Netflix having commercials...