Apple ready to launch its iRadio: streaming music against ... - The Republic

The service would provide advertising and subscriptions should be presented and the upcoming WWDC 2013. Closing agreements with the recording industry, the majors would ask the 10% plus one share notes for each song not reproduced in whole. Already launched a low cost iPod Touch

ALL READY for Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, the annual conference for developers. An event in which Cupertino show, generally, the new versions of iOS and OSX operating systems, new software and hardware products. Nothing is known yet officially, but this time Apple should pull out of the hat iOS7, some new Mac (Air Pro Retina and a model), and perhaps an iPhone. But of course, even if there is no confirmation, there will be a completely software dedicated to music: after dominating in recent years the market with iTunes, Apple would be ready to jump into the streaming music with iRadio, in competition with popular services Pandora and Spotify. The rumor is the New York Times: According to the U.S. newspaper, the company would close these days agreements with Warner Music and would be in advanced talks with other majors, including Universal.

From the rumors have also emerged likely characteristics of the iRadio service – but it is said to be called in this way – which Cupertino is working since last summer. Should allow each user to listen to music-streaming mode ‘on-demand’, ie on request. The access would be free, funded by advertising and the increase in sales of the songs at 99 cents on iTunes, the digital music store that has 500 million accounts.

And these are precisely million users buy music and movies for iPhone, iPad

and iPod touch to make the throat to the record companies. At the center of the negotiations would share rights that the majors want from Apple: 10% (compared with 4% of the profits paid by Pandora) plus a supplementary share some cents for each song not reproduced in whole or if the service does not take off right away. The last to debut arena of music streaming is Google, but in the field are long Spotify, Pandora and even Microsoft has released a servi ce called Xbox Music and you can listen to streaming music for free on his Xbox console, on PC and tablet. Meanwhile, perhaps to move forward on the music service, made the appearance on the market an iPod touch or loss (EUR 249) has less memory than the more expensive versions (16 GB, compared with 32 and 64 Gb) that is devoid of the camera rear, but retains all the other features of the popular music player.