Apple has unveiled its new $9.99 per month streaming music service and a 24 hour online radio station called Beats One to take on Spotify and Tidal, Jay Z’s service.
Source: Apple unveils Music streaming service to take on Spotify and Tidal | Daily Mail Online
So we have what???
- A music service that will have to compete with Spotify, Pandora and Apple’s own free iTunes radio, not to mention all the other online radio stations that are available like TuneIn, I <3 Radio and even YouTube. All of which are free or have free options. Oh, and also Amazon Prime’s rather impressive library, if you happen to have that service (which also includes free shipping and Prime Videos).
- News sounds like Apple has finally decided Flipboard or Bing may be good ideas.
- A pay service – Apple Pay – that hardly anybody is using here in the U.S.
- Plus we get some OS updates that are finally *beginning* to catch up with Android and Windows 8.
- About those billion Siri requests? How many of those requests include the 2 or 3 times you ask something before giving up and typing it manually? Or kids just asking silly questions to see what response is generated?
I hate to say this, because I love my iPhone 6, but I’m beginning to get some PalmOS deja vu.