24 March 2014

Apple In Talks To Launch Spotify Rival, Android App As Download Sales Decline

Apple In Talks To Launch Spotify Rival, Android App
To listen to music without having to buy everything, there are solutions such as streaming music Spotify available here on the App Store 

In 2013, sales of music on the iTunes Store had a difficult year, particularly in the United States, with declines of around 11% for albums and 11% for pieces while services such as Spotify continue to see their number of subscribers increase.

On this basis and according to indiscretions, Apple is in talks to launch its own music streaming service Spotify competitor Deezer or already well established in the iPhone and iPad and growing steadily.

Sales of digital music. To cope with this fall, Apple already offers a music streaming service via iTunes Radio 

By cons, this method does not allow for track selection since it takes the form of radio. However, in order to launch a bid yet enriched, 

we will have that Apple is negotiating again with the majors to agree on the conditions and especially prices . Apple has an extensive music library and we imagine that the majors will bitterly discuss the conditions for such unlimited listening. The negotiations would only start and we know that the road is long and fraught with pitfalls as already shown iTunes Radio in recent months.

Finally, and this is a new more amazing if confirmed, Apple would also consider offering his shop on the competing platform Android , despite attempts between the two actors.


Android dominating the smartphone market, one can easily imagine that this extension surely displease the labels and the impact on sales from the iTunes Store are not negligible, far from it. But to what Apple is developing its first application for Android, there is a step that we clearly not cross it, the past has shown us that Apple carefully preserved its technology platform for its home