Yesterday Apple Music streaming music service was a year of life. A year ago, Apple launched its new service for music in 110 countries. During the first three months, all users of Apple devices, because they were based on iOS or OS X could enjoy free of this new music service. Months later, Apple expanded the use of this service to Android and tvOS platforms, with the arrival on the market of the fourth generation Apple TV.
Apple Music is an evolution of the service Beats Music that bought Apple for more than 3,000 million dollars in the year 2014 and has slowly been gaining subscribers to 15 million today, has announced the company in the last Conference for developers, where the company presented the new features of iOS 10 macOS Sierra, tvOS 10 and watchOS 3.
Its maximum, and could say only rival, the Swedish guys at Spotify have 30 million paying subscribers, although these figures are from January, so the most likely has risen. Since the launch of Apple Music, Spotify seems that it has not been affected, but on the contrary, since growing almost at the same rate as his new rival, Apple Music.
Spotify part with some advantage, since it was founded in the year 2008, but failed to United States until 2011. By bringing so many years on the market, there are actually very few people who do not know and is always a priority at the time of being hired because it is available on all platforms in the world, while Apple Music is limited to iOS, tvOS, macOS and Windows (with iTunes).
In recent days the Swedish company has expressed publicly their unease because its application for iOS is being rejected over and over again for no apparent reason, which has forced Spotify to get in contact with Washington that take cards in the case and check if Apple is hindering free competition in the world of music in streaming , to the users of their devices.
Honestly think that Apple should not be put in that way. Win a customer costs a lot but losing it costs almost nothing. If the road that goes to choose Apple to win subscribers is harm to competition within its platform, the company takes a wrong path that eventually will happen Bill. Time will tell.
