Apple Music is more than the expected streaming offering. What exactly is hard to explain. For fans of Apple Watch there are meanwhile good and bad news.
Apple CEO Tim Cook during the keynote at WWDC 2015 | © Robert Galbraith / Reuters
Apple has on Monday hardly a surprise but caused a bit of confusion. The US group four major themes worked in the keynote of its developer conference WWDC from: these are the future generations of operating systems for the Mac, the iPhone and iPad mobile devices as well as for Apple Watch – and a new music service. Apple
Apple Music
Only has killed the Radio Star, now it wants to revive him. The company is willing to cannibalize his once marktumwälzendes player, but slightly ailing business with music downloads – it called the Wall Street Journal – in favor of a subscription streaming model plus radio stations plus iTunes playlists plus personalization tool plus communication channel from artists to consumers. Apple Music is the new offer then in the sum.
For $ 9.99 a month its users get access to the online Apple Music library to exist about 30 million songs to start on 30 June from. A three-month trial period is free of charge, families can buy a package for $ 14.99 that can share six people. Euro prices will be later known Apple. A free, ad-supported version as Spotify does not exist. That may disappoint consumers (75 percent of Spotify users choose the free version), but is good for record companies who may now hope to millions of new paying subscription customers. Which is not yet known how much of the money will end up with them and with the artists.
But Apple Music is more than streaming from the iTunes catalog. The package also an Internet radio station is one called Beats 1 and do what radio stations do precisely: He plays a music selection. But Apple would not be Apple, if it did not refer to these choices than absolutely gorgeous, curated by real connoisseurs. But who wants the rate at something as individual as taste in music already? During the keynote, some observers were anyway rather underwhelmed by helplessly. Is not it a bit gaga, to celebrate Internet Radio as the next big thing? Perhaps their opinion changes when the service can be tried. But this must Beats 1 must be more than a pre-drilled iTunes Radio.
The Music app will also compile personalized playlists, based on a few provisions of the users and adaptive technology. And there will be a channel with Connect, share about the artist new song snippets, text or photos with their fans and so can communicate with them. Something like Apple has tried. Does anyone remember to Ping? Eben.
What really should be innovative in all this, is hard to say. After all, Apple’s goal should be clear: keep the user always nice in their own musical universe.
would be remarkable still that there will be available for Android Apple Music.
watchOS 2
The first SmartWatch Apple gets an operating system update. The watchOS 2 is distributed in the fall. Its innovations are now the developers of apps use for themselves.
So far, third-party apps for the Apple Watch were not just a selling point for the wearable. Because Apple had not yet been released to directly access the hardware, were all 4,000 apps on the Watch only advanced iPhone applications with corresponding delays and bounded functions. This has now changed: Apple allows developers to program apps that run directly on the Watch
Accessing allowed on microphone and speakers, video playback technology, the accelerometer, the heart rate monitor, the digital crown and the Taptic. Engine. Conceivable are so apps that give sound signals by itself, capture exercise better be controlled with the rotating crown such as a scroll wheel or use new types of vibration clues. Because the Taptic Engine is a special vibration motor, which dominates also concise knocks and a kind pulsation. Perhaps there will soon give messaging apps that dispense with words, and instead focus on knocking and pulse patterns -. As emoji, you can only feel
No Access gives developers apparently on the Force Touch-called operating function. Through a strong pressure on the screen, certain settings can be changed, which is on such a small display a useful function because it does not have to be precise. Developers are likely to be disappointed that they are for the time being can not take advantage.
Alternative dials from outside vendors it will not continue to exist. Apple extends the standard range only dials out to your own photos or photo albums, and then at each activation of the clock a new image from the album will be displayed as a background.
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