Apple unveils Apple Music, it’s Spotify competitor

It all started with the rumors that Apple would be buying Beats Music over a year ago. After those reports came to fruition, it was only a matter of time until Apple unveiled a new streaming music service to take on Spotify and Google Play Music. Heck, Sony Music’s CEO even basically confirmed it yesterday.

Now it’s official: The company announced its new streaming platform, simply named Apple Music, at its WWDC conference in San Francisco today.

The service includes a 24/7 live global radio station called Beats 1, broadcast from New York, California and London.

Producer and Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine came out on stage to say that Apple Music is meant to benefit customers and artists alike. A feature called Connect allows artists to directly interact with fans.

All playlists are human curated, and available by genre or type of activity.

Developing….



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