When seemingly credible rumours surfaced two days ago that Apple was in the final stages of a £1.9 billion (US$3.2 billion) acquisition of headphone maker Beats by Dre, the world scratched its head. Now that a little time has passed, the deal is starting to make sense – sort of.
Since its launch in 2008, Beats has taken the world by storm. The premium headphone maker controls 59 percent of the high-end market and generated £590 million (US$1 billion) in revenue this past year. It also has a small music streaming service with approximately 200,000 subscribers.
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Spotify has just announced that a free update will be published before Christmas to extend their free desktop streaming services to mobile devices.
On mobile devices you will only be able to create playlists and shuffle them, you can’t select a specific track to play unless you upgrade to their premium account.
Spotify Premium
Spotify premium costs just £9.99 per month and its features are:
Play any song, anywhere Download music & listen offline in high-quality audio No ads & no commitmentYou can sign up for a 30 day free trial [...]
