Apple now has apps for Windows Phone and Android – Applesfera

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A side effect of the latest addition to Apple is that the company now has an app, Beats Music within the stores Android and Windows Phone . Not the first time, change Chomp for Android was available when Apple was with her and was soon withdrawn, but maybe this time is different. According confirms Tim Bradshaw of the Financial Times after interviewing the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook has said that the app will still be available after the agreement

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Weather confirm or deny this, but it certainly seems a successful move now that the iTunes music store live their lowest. And after all, a year ago that Cook had no problem with taking apps for Android already said. “If we think it makes sense to us, we will,” , which clashes with the view reflected Steve Jobs in his biography by Walter Isaacson.

“We launched iTunes in Windows order to sell more iPods. But I see no advantage to launch our music app for Android, except to make happier users of Android. And I do not make happy Android users. ” – Steve Jobs

Beats Music has gotten over 250,000 suscriptore s since its launch in the U.S. last January with a promising startup that will undoubtedly go to once again Apple take over and expand the service to the rest of the world. The sense, the advantage of keeping Betas for rival platforms this time would improve their chance against Spotify with 10 million subscribers after 6 years betting on streaming music.

we have done with a streaming service that we believe is the first to hit the mark.

“We have made a streaming service that we believe is the first to hit the mark” Apple CEO says targeting Beats Music as one of the main reasons behind the acquisition of 3.000 million, by far the most costly to the company on the block in its history. But this is only the beginning. Jimmy Iovine said that Beats Music is only a fraction of what they wanted to build , and now, with the resources Apple can achieve the quality they wanted. Will they receive the same improvements all versions? It remains to be seen

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