Apple's Streaming Music Service Said To Charge $10/month, Launches Next Month

Apple is set to release its new music streaming service for $10 per month which might compete with its rivals such as Rdio and Google.

Latest Apple news is regarding the music streaming service that the tech giant shall begin. It is confirmed that the company will be revealing a new streaming music service next week, as per the reports. The service is said to cost $10/month and will also provide unlimited listening. It is similar to the service provided by Spotify when it comes to function and features however the offer isn’t free, ad-supported across the catalogue one, instead that would be for iTunes Radio, that shall gain programmed and also human hosted channels.

There had been a lot of news earlier that reported such a streaming service might be started by Apple. The company is most likely basing its business partially on the acquisition of Beats, despite it will carry on with offering Beats Music after it has launched its own new service for music streaming. The service will probably carry iTunes or any other specific branding by the company, for quite some time so that the transition can be eased up.

There are some tracks which could be offered for free, per the Apple news that also reports that this will be introduced by Apple in the next update for iOS and also via standalone offering for the Android platform at the same time. The new channels coming to the radio offering shall be hosted by artists and hosts that are high profile. It also includes the talent recruited from BBC Radio 1. Interestingly, Dr. Dre will most likely host one of such speciality channel as per the reports.

The streaming service by Apple, at $10 per month, will be competing with Rdio and Spotify at the equal footing as far as the cost is concerned. However it sounds more like a huge selection of content which is human hosted and that could make it one tough rival to some sort of things like conventional terrestrial radio or satellite which shall help attract the larger amount of audience.

When it comes to the company, the name itself defines itself. Apple has the power of being a brand and has the huge attention of music buying public which is going to work in the favour of the company for this service. It is also experienced when it comes to international media offerings or at least is more proficient than rivals such as Amazon and Google in this regard.

The released report has not made it clear whether the company will introduce the streaming service in the upcoming week or right away release it for the users. It is conventional that the next OS updates might be released at Worldwide Developer Conference which is going to happen on June 8 and then the updates and further releases happen in September.