Apple has shared its results from the third quarter of its 2019 fiscal year. Its revenue for the period ending June 29 reached $53.8 billion, up just 1% from the third quarter of 2018. The slight bump in revenue made this period Apple’s biggest June quarter to date. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: Leading Apple Music’s next act. Podcast recommendations by DM. Streaming growth is still slow in Africa. Continue Reading
Apple Music and Spotify have been making changes to their streaming services over the years to compete more directly with each other. The latest dig in the rivalry is around hip-hop playlist curation. Continue Reading
Apple Music now has 60 million users, including both paying subscribers and listeners on free trials. Apple exec Eddy Cue gave the update in an interview with French website Numerama. Continue Reading
Apple Music has made a new hire for its publishing unit. Lindsay Rothschild is the new head of creative services in North America for the division. She joins the company from Google. Continue Reading
Sonos has added partial support for Apple Music to its smart speakers. For now, the streaming service is only accessible on Sonos One and Sonos Beam devices. This is a big move from two businesses that have been slow to adopt new partners in the smart speaker space. Continue Reading
Apple Music is making some minor quality of life improvements to one of its signature features. The “For You” section of the streaming service, which has curated editoral playlists, will be updated with new content multiple times a day. Continue Reading
Apple Music may have outpaced Spotify in paid subscription listeners in the United States. That’s the latest report from the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources familiar with the figures. Even if the numbers cited by WSJ are accurate, Spotify’s total footprint is still larger than Apple’s in the United States and on a global scale. Continue Reading
Apple Music may be getting a bigger smart speaker footprint soon. An eagle-eyed reader of MacRumors noticed that Apple’s music streaming service is now listed within the latest update to the Google Home iOS app, but it can’t currently be connected to one of the smart home devices from that product line. Continue Reading
Brief news items and worthy reads from around the web: SoundCloud at the Grammys. Apple Music’s Grammy deal. Smart speakers’ language options. Singing in tongues. Continue Reading
Billboard has released its annual Power 100 list, ranking some of the music industry’s most influential leaders. The major labels took several high-ranking spots, but the impact of streaming made its presence known on this chart. Continue Reading
Apple Music is pursuing new partnerships to bring the streaming service to new audiences. The latest tie-up will give Apple Music subscribers access to their music on American Airlines flights without needing to purchase WiFi. Continue Reading