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Rumor: AppleCare now offering support for Beats Music products, accepting Apple Pay for business clients

As of Thursday, AppleCare has begun providing support for Beats Music customers as well as accepting Apple Pay for payment. Prior to this, support for Beats’ customers went through an alternate service. According to sources, AppleCare staff are now taking Apple Pay as a form of compensation. Support for the Beats music products has been […]

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Apple purchases Semetrics music analysis service, puts itself in better position to track users’ music listening habits

Apple’s interested in what you’re listening to. Especially if it helps to justify having spent several billion dollars for Beats. Per The Guardian, Apple has acquired British startup Semetric, which runs the Musicmetric analytics tool, as part of its plans to relaunch its Beats Music streaming music service later in the year. In documents filed […]

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Apple reports falling iTunes Music Store numbers in SEC filing

iTunes Music Store downloads are falling. And the numbers aren’t pretty. According to VentureBeat, in a securities filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple reported declining iTunes Music Store numbers. “Growth in net sales from the iTunes Store was driven by increases in revenue from app sales reflecting continued growth in the installed base […]

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Detailed report highlights possible iPhone 6 spec list

A new report may point towards a final spec list for the iPhone 6 handset. Per MacRumors and VentureBeat, a detailed overview of features for the iPhone 6 has emerged from an unspecified source. According to the site’s source, Apple will introduce both the 4.7 and 5.5-inch iPhones at its upcoming September 9 event, but […]

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Apple is pushing music downloading apps out of the App Store

In what appears to be an aggressive move to promote iTunes purchases and iTunes Radio, and possibly a Beats-related subscription service, Apple has been systematically removing any music downloading apps from the App Store according to MacRumors. Any search previously for “music download” in the App Store would show a number of apps that could download music […]