Apple is planning to make the streaming service music Beats Music to stop, claims TechCrunch, on the basis of information from multiple sources. Apple seems to be no service in addition to its own iTunes service to run.
Five employees of Apple and Beats let TechCrunch know that the plug from Beats Music drawn. After the acquisition of Beats by Apple, at the end of may, it was already the question of what to do with that streamingtak would happen. If Beats Music did indeed stop, it seems that the acquisition was aimed at the inboard pick-up of Beats executives Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, with their contacts within the music industry, and to acquire the koptelefoonbusiness.
In addition, it integrates Apple, the teams that deal with the streaming service as possible in his own iTunes industry. Some of the developers of Beats Music would be there, already at work are gone and the former ceo is now working on iTunes Radio.
After the acquisition was silence around Beats Music. Also at the announcement of the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch, the service does not have a single role. Apple would want to focus on its own iTunes service, that 800 million users. Beats Music came relatively late compared with alternatives such as Spotify and Pandora, and had at the time of the acquisition to 250,000 paid users.
Update, Tuesday: Apple and let them know that the message about the closure of Beats Music is not right. According to Re/code, considering Apple do to make the streaming service a name other than Beats Music.
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