Apple Music

After a false start six months ago, Apple Music has truly surpassed Spotify in terms of paid U.S. subscribers — if with a long way to go globally.
Source: Apple Insider News and Secrets on New Apple Products

Continuing a marketing campaign ahead of tomorrow’s International Women’s Day, Apple on Thursday premiered “Global Feminism,” a star-studded video paired with a matching Apple Music playlist.
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If the date is correct, we’re likely to have an event on March 25 that will see Apple launching two major services including a more coherent Apple News service with magazines and other publications, plus the debut of Apple’s streaming video service — but what about hardware?
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Expanding beyond a recent billboard campaign, Apple on Friday released a trio of Apple Music ads ahead of this Sunday’s Grammy Awards, themed around the memoji feature on the latest iPhones.
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The Zipp Mini from Libratone is a wireless speaker that works — and sounds — great in the home, as well as on the go using Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or AirPlay 2.
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Excluding a one-time payment, Apple’s services revenue rose 27 percent during the September quarter to $9.981 billion, aided by the company’s usual suspects but in no small part by a sharp rise in Apple Pay transactions.
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Apple Music has pulled ahead of Spotify in the U.S. market, a major music distributor claims, with Apple’s streaming service said to have overtaken its main rival in terms of the number of paid subscribers from the United States.
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Scorpion, Drake’s fifth album, has smashed through his own single-day streaming record on Apple Music with more than 170 million streams in its first 24 hours. Spotify reportedly only reached about 76 percent of that traffic, despite claiming 120 million more users.
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As with any other gadget, the term “wireless speaker” is loaded with sometimes confusing categories. AppleInsider breaks them down and talks about how to pick what features you need, and which speaker you may want.
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Apple has acquired global rights to a new documentary called Songwriter, which follows singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran through much of 2016 as he evolves his unique style.
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