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Apple announces Apple Music streaming service, cites June 30th launch date

You knew it was coming. It wasn’t like the universe needed another streaming music service, but Apple’s thrown its hat into the ring and announced “Beats One”, or the Apple Music service, which will be available for US$9.99 per month for a single account, US$14.99 per month for a family account and feature on-demand content […]

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Apple releases iTunes 12.1.2 update

Hot on the heels of muchos other updates, Apple has released iTunes 12.1.2. The new version, a 120 megabyte download, improves syncing to your iOS devices from the newly-released Photos for OS X. The update also adds several improvements to the Get Info window and improves overall application stability.

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Entire Star Wars film series to hit iTunes on Friday, April 10th

It won’t just be the Apple Watch that comes out this Friday, April 10th. Walt Disney on Monday announced a completely digital re-release of the venerable Star Wars series, which will launch as a collection of all six episodes on April 10 through Apple’s iTunes and other outlets. From Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom […]

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Streaming music rises, CD sales fall and Apple may rebrand Beats into improved streaming music service

This may be behind the reason that Apple acquired Beats and its associated streaming music service last year. As of now, revenue from music streaming is now overshadowing CD sales in the US, according to new data published by the Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday, signalling a sea-change in favor of services like […]

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Rumor: In lieu of upcoming iTuns music streaming service, music labels unlikely to accept prices under $9.99 per month

This is the cost of a company getting to be a certain size or have a certain influence on its surrounding industries. Apparently, Apple is unlikely to offer a free, ad-supported tier for its upcoming streaming music service. It also seemed like Apple was going to try to undercut competitors like Spotify by offering its […]