Apple is preparing a series of radical changes in the interface of proprietary Apple Music service, launched less than a year ago. About it reports Bloomberg with reference to informed sources.
Updated app Apple streaming Music will be presented in June at WWDC 2016. Primarily in the companies plan to alter the user interface of the client to ensure that it was more intuitive and easy to use. In addition, significant improvement will be exposed to online radio and downloading music for listening without Internet connection.
It is expected that the update will be accompanied by a marketing campaign aimed at attracting new users. Apple representatives refused to comment this information.
The reaction of users to Apple Music has been mixed: people appreciated the extensive catalogue of music, but criticized the confusing interface of the app. “The program is littered with a large amount of information, which is difficult to navigate”, — specifies the edition.
During the conference at the end of the second quarter of fiscal year 2016, Apple CEO Tim cook said that the company is betting on services, which include Apple Music. The revenue of the Corporation from the sale of services amounted to $6 billion in three months. This segment is growing, while the company’s main business — sales of the iPhone for the first time demonstrated a fall. For the second quarter, Apple has sold 51.2 million iPhone revenue was $accounting period 32.85 billion), which is 16% lower year-on-year.
Apple launched the Apple Music with access to the iTunes library and the catalog, which includes more than 30 million songs, on 30 June 2015. The first three months of Apple Music you can use for free, then payment will be $ 169 per month and the family plan will cost 269 rubles. Currently the service is used by over 13 million people worldwide.
