Apple Music: now on Android phones

Apple’s freshly launched music service is now available on rival mobile devices powered by Android software.

Apple’s freshly launched music service is now available on rival mobile devices powered by Google-backed Android software.

“Welcome Android users to @AppleMusic,” Apple senior vice-president of internet software and services Eddie Cue tweeted on Tuesday.

Welcome Android users to @AppleMusic

— Eddy Cue (@cue) November 10, 2015

Apple Music applications tuned for Android-powered gadgets became available on the virtual shelves of Google’s online Play Store.

Android versions of Apple Music applications were made available everywhere the service is offered, except China.

Apple’s new music service had previously been available on devices powered by the technology giant’s own iOS software.

The expansion to Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, promised to ramp the ranks of people signed up for the service.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook said in October that the music service had about 6.5 million subscribers.

“It is going really well,” Cook during an onstage chat at a Wall Street Journal technology forum on the southern California coast.

“Lots of people are liking it.” People have begun ending free trials of the music service, which launched at the end of June in more than 100 countries, according to Cook.

He credited a human curation element (actual people who fashion playlists) for creating listening experiences superior to that delivered by “zeros and ones” of computer algorithms.

Apple Music, the tech giant’s new streaming service, went live at the end of June as the company behind iTunes looks to dominate the fast-growing sector.

AFP