Apple Music Products
Apple Music launched in 2015, with a catalogue of 30 million songs from artists worldwide, with over 20,000 singers and songwriters delivering new songs to Apple Music every day. Today, there are now 100 million songs on Apple Music.
Waze Apple Music
Apple Music will now seamlessly integrate with Waze. You can use Waze’s built-in audio controls to play, pause and switch between songs in your iPhone’s Apple Music library.
Apple Music
Apple Music for Android is now rolling out Lossless Audio and Dolby Atmos. Last month, Apple unveiled a free update for Apple Music subscribers that added lossless audio streaming and spatial audio with support for Dolby Atmos. Now, Android users can access these features too.
European Commission
The European Commission has issued a Statement of Objections saying Apple has "distorted competition in the music streaming market as it abused its dominant position for the distribution of music streaming apps through its App Store."
EE
EE today launched The Full Works Plan for iPhone, allowing EE customers for the first time in the UK to receive inclusive access to Apple Music, Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade for the duration of their plan, as well as unlimited mobile data and the option to upgrade to a new phone anytime.
Apple Music Radio
Apple today launched two new live global radio offerings on Apple Music, now available to music fans in 165 countries. Beginning today, Beats 1, the flagship global radio station, will be renamed Apple Music 1, and two additional radio stations will launch: Apple Music Hits, with songs from the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s, and Apple Music Country, spotlighting country music.
Apple Music
Apple has accused Spotify of “misleading rhetoric” in a response to Spotify's antitrust complaint in Europe, pulling no punches as it accused Spotify of “trying to squeeze” artists, musicians and songwriters, in the same way that it was trying to “make more money off others’ work” in the App Store, pointing to Spotify’s appeal against a proposed increase to its US royalty payments.
Apple today previewed iOS 10, featuring a huge update to Messages that delivers more expressive and animated ways to message friends and family.
Apple has released what is likely to be the last version of iOS 8.4 before it rolls out iOS 9 sometime next month.