Earlier this week we reported that Apple had added Beats Music to its Apple Apps prompt for customers opening the App Store for the first time following its $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics and Beats Music.
Since that discovery Apple has gone one step further in the App Store adding it to the top of its “Apps Made by Apple” list linked at the bottom of the App Store for all customers in an effort to further promote the streaming music service app and show ownership of the Beats Music.
In addition to prominently featuring the Beats Music app for new App Store users and promoting it alongside its apps like Pages, iPhoto, and Remote, Apple is also featuring Beats Music in the Best New Apps list on the front page of the App Store this week (although its last update was July 28th).
Apple has taken other moves since closing the deal to acquire Beats Electronics and Beats Music on August 1st including moving sales of Beats headphones and audio equipment from the BeatsbyDre.com site to its own web store as well as prominently display a dedicated Beats by Dr. Dre section on its online store front and iOS app.
Beats Music is available as a free app on the App Store and requires a paid monthly subscription to unlock its full functionality.
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Well if that is “made by Apple” it should be disclosed here too, no? https://cloudup.com/ckJiROyjb6V
I think that’s a formality of how the app is uploaded to the App Store, but wouldn’t be surprised if it changed to say Apple soon following the pattern we’ve seen mentioned above.
Either way is accurate since Apple is the parent company of the LLC mentioned there, but again, probably more of a formality of how the app was uploaded that hasn’t changed.
yes technically you re right. but since they made the step to “edit” the made by apple section, they should have gone all the way, and even add a disclosure as they do with editorial note when they feature an app….this is what leads to good practice….beats for example is “best new apps” of the week…it is definitely not NEW but it is definitely owned by Apple and this should be clear to users.
I think I’ve found a solution to world overpopulation. If you think secret pics of an iPhone are interesting, please step into the meat grinder. Awwww…can you feel the sentient intelligence of humanity increasing by the muffled scream?
Is there any outlook as when will be this available in Europe? I used spotify a bit, but I hope this is even better ;)
“Since that discovery Apple has gone one step further in the App Store adding it to the top of its “Apps Made by Apple” list linked at the bottom of the App Store for all customers”
Er, all customers who are located in 0.5% of the world’s countries that is. Those outside of America do not have Beats Music in their App Store. That’s hardly “everyone”.