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Android Apple MusicFeb 10, 2022Feb 10, 2022

Apple Music beta for Android features new widgets and reference to “Apple Classical” app

The latest update of Apple Music beta for Android features redesigned widgets for Home Screen. More interestingly, reference to an upcoming standalone app “Apple Classical” is also discovered in the update’s code. In August 2021, Apple acquired Primephonic, a classic…

Apple MusicFeb 8, 2022Feb 8, 2022

Apple acquires ‘Al Music’ startup which uses AI to generate personalized music

Rida Imran

Bloomberg reports that Apple has bought a London-based startup called Al Music which uses AI (artificial intelligence) to produce “tailor-made” music. People familiar with the matter said that the new technology can be used across the tech giant’s audio libraries….

Apple MusicFeb 5, 2022

Apple Music reduces free trial to one month from three months

Imran Hussain

Apple Music has reduced its free trial offering for new users from three months to one month. The trial period had been three months ever since Apple Music launched. Standard Apple Music free trial period is now one month The…

Apple Music iOS iPhoneFeb 3, 2022Feb 3, 2022

Download Caset app to create Apple Music mixtapes with friends and family on iPhone

Rida Imran

The new Apple Music companion app “Caset” allows users to create collaborative mixtapes with family and friends. Apple Music subscribers can create playlists and share them with other subscribers but they can not create playlists together and only the host…

Apple Music Apple TVJan 28, 2022

Apple Services generated $19.5 billion in sales revenue in Q1, 2022

Rida Imran

For Q1, 2020, Apple reported $124 billion in revenue with 11% Y-o-Y growth and Apple Services accounted for $19.5 billion an all-time revenue record with 24% Year-on-Year growth. The company’s CEO Tim Cook said that its Services segment performed even…

AirPods Apple Music Apple WatchJan 28, 2022Jan 29, 2022

Apple wearables and home accessories sales revenue hit $14.7 billion in Q1, 2022, an all time record

Rida Imran

Out of the company’s $124 billion in revenue, Apple wearables and home accessories accounted for $14.7 billion in revenue in Q1, 2022 with 13% Year-over-Year growth in each geographic segment. The high performance enabled Apple wearables and home accessories to…

Apple MusicJan 21, 2022Jan 21, 2022

Apple Music is the second most popular music streaming service, worldwide

Rida Imran

The new music subscriber market shares report by MIDiA reveals that Apple Music is the second most popular music streaming service, worldwide. With a 15% market share, Apple Music is in the second spot behind Spotify which accounts for 31%…

Apple Music Chrome MacJan 11, 2022Jan 11, 2022

Shazam extension for Chrome is now available – here is how to download it on Mac and PC

Rida Imran

Apple has released a Chrome extension of its popular song recognition app, Shazam. The new extension allows Mac and PC users to recognize songs directly from their Chrome browser like on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch. Apple acquired Shazam in 2018…

Apple MusicJan 5, 2022Jan 5, 2022

Check out the songs Apple-owned Shazam thinks will be big in 2022

Asma Hussain

The Apple-owned music discovery and identification platform Shazam has shared a new Apple Music playlist that features songs that it thinks will be big in 2022. The playlist highlights 50 songs with five artists Apple believes people should be keeping…

Apple Music iOS iPad iPhone MacJan 4, 2022

Apple’s Services business is worth $1.5 trillion says analyst

Rida Imran

Apple kicked off 2022 by becoming the first company to achieve $3 trillion market value. Its strong hardware upgrade cycle in 2021 is not the only contributor to hit that mark, the company’s Services business has grown drastically over the…