Apple Music is the first real audio streaming service launched by the Apple company, it was presented on Monday at WWDC 2015, the official launch will take place on June 30 together with iOS 8.4 We too Music application.
Apple Music was received with mixed reactions from competitors Spotify, Pandora or Rdio, and this is perfectly normal considering that the markets accessed by Apple usually leave no room for competitors.
In this idea, above we have a comparison made between Apple Music, Spotify, Rdio, and Google Play Music to get an idea about what the Americans get, because in Romania we do not benefit from such services yet.
Apple Music has identical prices to Spotify, Rdio or Google Play Music, the difference with Spotify being that it only offers 3 months of free use, the difference without Rdio being that it does not have a subscription cheaper than the basic one.
All four services offer access to over 30 million songs available in their multimedia archives, but those from Rdio have signed contracts with several record companies, so they have 2 million more songs.
Apple Music streams at 256 kbps, probably AAC, while its competitors stream at 320 kbps, most likely MP3, the format chosen by the Apple company being considered by many to have a better quality.
Apple Music, Spotify and Google Music offer the possibility to view video clips, all 4 services have exclusive content, playlists edited by people, the option to listen to songs offline, only Apple and Google offer online storage space.
Apple Music does not have social functions, but it has a Connect service that allows following the news offered by artists, it has applications for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, or at least it will have, only Spotify having an additional one for Linux, and together with Rdio it also has one for Windows Phone.
Looking at things "cold", the big point of differentiation between Apple Music and competing services will be Beats 1, the radio created especially for users.
