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