Apple introduced a Spotify competitor with radio and publications from musicians • Meduza • RIMA — Russian Independent Media Archive

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06/08/2015

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Apple introduced a Spotify competitor with radio and publications from musicians

Apple unveiled Apple Music at the WWDC Developer Conference. It allows you to listen to any music from the iTunes collection and follow the life of musicians in one application. The presentation was broadcast live on the Apple website .

Apple Music provides subscription access to songs from the Apple Collection, offers users personalized recommendations and selections of interesting musicians. In addition, the application aggregates the publications of musicians from various sources, allowing you to follow their new songs, photos and lyrics in a single feed.

Apple Music will also include a 24-hour "radio": Apple promises that news, interviews and guest stars will be available to users. The service will launch on June 30th.

A monthly subscription to Apple Music will cost $9.99 per month, with the first three months free. The service will be available in 100 countries, not only on Apple devices, but also on Windows and Android.

In addition to the music service, Apple introduced updated versions of its operating systems.
The next version of the system for Mac OS X computers was called El Capitan. It will be possible to deploy to the full screen not one, but two applications at once - they will share the available space among themselves. In addition, system search learned to understand complex queries, and application launches increased by 1.4 times. The system will be released in autumn 2015.
Mobile operating system iOS 9 will also be available to users in the fall. It has a News aggregator app, and the iPad version has the ability to work simultaneously in two applications.
watchOS, which powers the Apple Watch, has also been updated. The new version (it also comes out in the fall) has the ability to run applications directly on the watch, rather than shifting the execution of logic to the connected phone. In addition, when connected to a charger, the watch can be switched to "night mode", in which it will continue to show the time.