I do not hesitate to admit that the news from Apple Music surprised me a lot. I have been a Spotify user for many years and Apple Music for several years. And with all the love I have for Spotify for its principles, a time when I quantified it and it was rare that I spent less than ten hours a day listening to music (fortunately I have a job I can do listening to music), Over time, I like Apple more every day.
And no, I’m not saying this because of the Spotify controversies we’ve talked about on previous occasions. No, I’m saying this because I didn’t like their decision to eliminate Car View just when they launched devices to add functionality to this type of view, and I also don’t like announcing the arrival of high fidelity music more than a year ago, and this has still not materialized. And in a split time, Apple announced Apple Music HiFi for free, launched it and even included surround sound.
Except, Spotify seems to have focused mainly on podcastswhich seems completely legitimate to me, but in the meantime Apple Music continues to grow in music content, not only with agreements with multiple artists and record companies, but also with operations such as the purchase of Primephonic, a prestigious classical music streaming service whose catalog has been added to the Apple Music catalog. The specific classical music application that Apple announced last year has not yet arrived, but we can already enjoy the huge musical background of this genre.
And now, as the service itself announced through message on your twitter profile, Apple Music has introduced Apple Music Live, a series of concerts that will be broadcast live through the service. And in case you’re wondering if we’re talking about performances by smaller artists, the answer is absolutely no. And as a clear example, we have the first broadcast concert next Friday, May 20, whose protagonist will be Harry Styles, who will present his third album at the event.
The concert will take place at the UBS Arena on Long Island in New York and to warm up the Apple atmosphere has already created a specialaccessible from iTunes, in which we can find an interview with Styles about creating an album, a link for users to add Harry’s house to your library and a bunch of playlists focused on artists.
If Apple manages to maintain regularity in this regard, that is, if Apple Music Live keeps the rhythm of the concert, no doubt we face what the Anglo-Saxons usually call a gamechanger, something that changes everything. And if that doesn’t seem to mean any increase in the price of the service, it seems that those from Cupertino to Spotify are making it harder every day to stop the NFT nonsense and devote themselves to music, which is what took the service to the highest level.
