While specific Apple Music user numbers have yet to be released, the early estimates are looking good. A year end report from consumer research firm Nielsen states that Apple Music was one of the most popular smartphone apps of 2015, and with more than 54.5 million monthly users ranked among offerings from Facebook and Google. […]
Month: December 2015
You can’t knock an upgraded sound file. Apple is rumored to be working on a higher-quality audio streaming file format for use in 2016 and beyond. Anonymous sources at the Portable Audio Festival in Tokyo cited that the company has been developing Hi-Res Audio streaming up to 96kHz/24bit in 2016.
The estimates are in and they’re impressive. According to music business analyst Mark Mulligan, Apple may have 8 million Apple Music subscribers by the end of 2015 and 20 million by the end of 2016, thereby making it the second most popular streaming music service behind Spotify. “Apple might not have found the subscription market […]
This is a pretty huge step in the world of Apple Pay. Apple on Friday announced that it’s bringing Apple Pay to China with the support of UnionPay for its mobile payment system. In China, Apple Pay will support 15 of the country’s leading banks. It’s presently unknown as to which banks will be supported. […]
The Facebook Messenger app’s come a long way. Now at a whopping version 52.0, the latest revision of the app has begun to offer Uber integration, as noted here: Today, we’re expanding the services available to you with our launch of transportation on Messenger. With this new feature, you can request a ride from a […]