Just as rumors claimed recently, Apple announced lossless music streaming support for Apple Music this week. The upgrade comes free of charge to all Apple Music subscribers, Apple announced. Apple will use a new codec, Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), for its catalog of more than 75 million songs. “This means Apple Music subscribers will …
Following a series of leaks hinting at the new feature, Apple announced on Monday that lossless audio will be coming to its entire library of songs on Apple Music starting this June. Apple says that once it launches, subscribers can listen to over 75 million songs on Apple Music in lossless quality. Additionally, Apple Music …
Apple’s Spring Loaded event was packed with huge announcements, from the redesigned iMac and the iPad Pro with an M1 chip to the new Apple TV 4K and the AirTag tracker. As per usual, even more devices were rumored to show up at the event, but those rumors didn’t come true. In fact, one such …
Paid subscription offerings like Apple Music and Apple News+ are increasingly important to Apple, as a complement to the company’s rip-roaring sales of hardware like iPhones. Best Buy is currently offering deals, whereby users can sign up for 6-month free trial periods of both Apple Music and Apple News+, for a savings of $60 each. …
Apple introduced a new six-month free trial of Apple Music for eligible students in select countries. Apple Music student subscriptions previously included a three-month free trial, but if you sign up before April 30th, 2021, you can get an extra three months for free. Once the trial period ends, you’ll be charged $4.99 per month …
Major outage hits App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, and more Apple services on Tuesday. Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager were also down on Tuesday morning, but Apple appears to have resolved whatever issues were plaguing those services. Apple had not issued a statement about the widespread outage as of 12 p.m. ET …
Apple on Tuesday unveiled its expected Apple subscription bundle, which packs myriad subscription service offerings from the iPhone maker into an a single paid offering. The services included with an Apple One subscription, depending on which tier is chosen, include Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple News+, and more. On a related note, Apple …
2019 was a year that saw the streaming music wars heat up in a major way — a competition that, of course, is essentially between Apple Music and Spotify, with Apple’s streaming music service surpassing Spotify this year in terms of its paid US subscriber base. Spotify, meanwhile, produced a huge wave of additional publicity …
Just a couple of weeks after Apple TV+ officially launched to the public, Bloomberg reports that Apple is considering bundling Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple News+ as soon as 2020 in order to attract more subscribers. This plan has been rumored for quite some time, but sources say that Apple has made deals with …
Ever since Apple announced its streaming video service, we’ve anticipated the reveal of a bundle that would feature both Apple TV+ and Apple Music, at the minimum. This week, a bundle of sorts was finally unveiled, but not quite how we were expecting it to be. Hailee Steinfeld, star of Apple’s upcoming series Dickinson, revealed …
