{"id":751901,"date":"2013-05-17T12:54:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T16:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=646566"},"modified":"2013-05-17T12:54:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T16:54:31","slug":"apple-may-not-have-answer-for-googles-music-service-at-wwdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/751901","title":{"rendered":"Apple may not have answer for Google\u2019s music service at WWDC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google went and pre-empted Apple’s long-rumored iRadio <\/a>streaming music service with a subscription music service of its own at this week’s Google I\/O developer conference<\/a>. Apple’s own developer event, WWDC, starts June 10<\/a>, but the word is that its music service may not be ready to go by then.<\/p>

The Verge says<\/a> Apple is still “bogged down in licensing talks” with music publishers. Two of the big ones are still holding out, Sony\/ATV and BMG, according to the Verge’s sources. That’s partly because what Apple is trying to do is not the same as Google Play Music All Access. Google’s service is a standard subscription service, like Spotify, and it will cost users $10 per month. It’s also not clear what the music catalog will look like for that service because Google has not yet announced which publishers have signed up.<\/p>

iRadio is reportedly more complicated because of what Apple is trying to build and how it likes to do business. iRadio won’t be a straight-up web radio service; there will also be some on-demand aspects to it. And Apple also isn’t willing to pay music publishers an advance for access to their catalogs. Instead, Apple has agreed to give them a share of ad revenue, per-play fees and a guaranteed minimum payment, according to the Verge.<\/p>

Apple already makes billions<\/a> from its current content service, iTunes. It’s not essential that Apple have its own streaming music subscription service as answer to Google in a few weeks. But the company does need to acknowledge that times and habits have changed when it comes to music ownership. The developers conference seems a perfect place to debut it, but a fall event later this year when new hardware is set to be announced would be fine too; three more months doesn’t make that big of a difference at this point.<\/p>
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