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Apple Music and Tidal have leaned on exclusives as the battle to catch up to Spotify's lead in subscribers. Taylor Martin/CNET The rivalry between the subscription music giants may be tuing bitter. Spotify has been penalizing some artists who provide music exclusively to its main competitor, Apple Music, according to a Bloomberg report. Citing uamed people familiar with the practices, the report said Spotify search results bury tunes by artists who give their material to Apple Music first. The company also waed acts it will exclude Apple-exclusive music from featured Spotify playlists once it's available to stream there, the report said. A spokeswoman for Spotify said statements about buryin...

Less than two months before succumbing to cancer, ailing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs resigned from the office of CEO on August 24, 2011. Tim Cook (left), who had been the company's Chief Operating Officer since 2004, took over the top spot at the world's preeminent technology company. In the five years since his ascension to the CEO position, Cook has made a unique imprint on Apple, becoming a more vocal social activist than his legendary predecessor, and even directly taking on the US govement in a high-profile fight for digital privacy. In terms of Apple's products, however, Cook has largely taken a conservative approach, shepherding evolutionary changes to the existing product line (iPhon...

Under tremendous pressure to continue the iovative performance record forged by Steve Jobs, Tim Cook officially took over as CEO of Apple five years ago, with looming questions about his ability to deliver.As Cook celebrates his fifth aiversary as chief, questions still linger. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

"Endless" is exclusively streaming on Apple Music. Screenshot/Xiomara Blanco The wait for a new Frank Ocean album is over -- kind of.Early Friday moing the artist released a visual album, "Endless," exclusively on Apple Music. Currently, it's only available to stream as a 45-minute long video, not as a typical audio-only album with individual tracks.The project was heavily teased, thanks to a mysterious live stream that unceremoniously debuted two weeks ago. It answers a few questions curious fans have patiently waited for (he really was building some type of staircase), but, it doesn't quite answer the most important question -- where's the new album? There's no official word on when or if ...

A lot's happened in 40 years. Back in 1976, co-founder Steve Wozniak built Apple's first-ever computer, the Apple I, after showing it off to a ragtag group of geeky misfits. Fast forward to 2016: Apple sold its billionth iPhone. That's an enormous achievement for a company that's become both status symbol and everyday icon. In the four decades since the Apple I, co-founder Steve Job has passed away, Wozniak has moved on to other pursuits, and Apple bumps along with the ups and downs of the consumer tech space it helped to so solidly forge.And to think, all that grew from the seed of this first "Eureka" moment.Enlarge ImageThe black-and-white photo from 1976 shows Steve Jobs (right) with co-f...

Enlarge Image Britney Spears/Twitter Spotify has suffered another blow in the ongoing online music-streaming battle: Britney Spears' "Glory", her first album since 2013, will be an Apple Music exclusive.The news was aounced by Spears herself, who said on Twitter that the album would be dropping on August 26.Both Apple Music and Tidal have managed to snag their own share of exclusives this year, but the same can't be said for Spotify. Frank Ocean's "Boys Don't Cry" will be an Apple Music exclusive upon its release this Friday, and Drake's "Views" was exclusive to the service for a week back in April. It'll remain to be seen if the albums by Spears and Ocean remain exclusive, however. Kanye We...

Katy Perry Katy Perry is the latest artist to forgo Spotify in favor of Apple Music. The singer debuted her new song "Rise" on Apple's streaming service late Thursday night. While the song can also be found on the singer's Vevo YouTube page, it isn't available on either Spotify or Tidal. The song is exclusive to Apple Music subscribers for the time being and can only be purchased through the iTunes store. "This is a song that's been brewing inside me for years, that has finally come to the surface," Perry said about the song during an appearance on the Today Show. "I was inspired to finish it now, rather than save it for my next album, because now more than ever, there is a need for our worl...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte PodcastiTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream| Stitcher Listen to the Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 45 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]Extra Crunchy show notes:Apple vs. Spotify:Spotify says Apple won't approve a new version of its app because it doesn't want competition for Apple Music Apple Slams Spotify For Asking For "Preferential Treatment"Apple in Talks to Acquire Jay Z's Tidal Music ServiceApple patents:Apple Wins a Patent for an Infrared Camera System that Originally Caused Some ControversyApple Granted Patent for Controlling Apple TV'...

Apple iTunes: guilty of data deletion?In a world where people buy electronics online without ever talking to another human being, the staff in an Apple Store Genius Bar offer an awfully personal relationship between a company and its customers. But that's nothing compared to what James Pinkstone experienced when two Apple technicians visited his home to figure out why iTunes apparently deleted 122GB of his music collection.Pinkstone, director of studio and operations for Atlanta, Georgia-based creative agency Vellum, blogged about the incident in May in a post titled "Apple Stole My Music." A backup restored the data files, but that wasn't the end of the saga. Apple sent two engineers to Pin...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageIt's not easy to lip-sync in British English. Apple screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The big brains at Apple Music sat down and sipped jasmine tea."What are we going to do for a new ad?" said one from above a perfectly ironed Lacoste shirt."I know. We'll have Taylor Swift lip-syncing a song," said another, her red pointy shoes twitching very slightly."Wait, we did that for our last ad, remember? The one we said wasn't anything like a toothpaste ad but really was?" grunted a third over his teacup."I've got it!" screamed an inte. "We'll have Taylor lip-syncing a song and dancing!" "That...

Enlarge ImageApple says it has no plans to retire iTunes downloads. screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET Reports of the coming death of iTunes Music have been greatly exaggerated, at least according to Apple.On Wednesday, a story out of Digital Music News claimed that Apple is looking to put the kibosh on music downloads from its iTunes store as soon as two years from now. Sources "with close and active business relationships with Apple" told the music news site that discussions are focused "not on if, but when" music downloads would be given the heave-ho.In response, Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr simply said: "Not true," according to Recode. Neumayr apparently didn't elaborate. But the report doe...

Apple Music is getting cheaper for young people. In a bid to compete with rivals Spotify and Google Music, Apple is offering half-price subscriptions to its streaming service for students.Students in the US, the UK, Australia, Germany Denmark and New Zealand will be able to make use of the discount, TechCrunch reports.A yearly subscription to the service currently costs $10, £10 or AU$12 per month, bringing the cost down to only $5, £5 or AU$6 per month with the student discount. Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Subscribe to the Apple Byte Podcast:iTunes MP3 | RSS MP3 | FeedBuer MP3SoundCloud | Google Play | TuneIniTunes video | RSS video | FeedBuer videoYouTube | Livestream Listen to the Extra Crunchy Podcast, Ep. 35 Your browser does not support the audio element. [embedded content]Extra Crunchy show notes:- Apple Music News:Apple Music's iOS 10 overhaul detailed: black & white UI, 'huge artwork', lyrics integrationApple Stole My Music. No, Seriously.- Siri News:Siri's creators say they've made something better that will take care of everything for you- Other News:YouTube Said to Plan 'Unplugged' Online TV Service for 2017The 50 Most Influential Gadgets of All TimeTIME Names iPhone Most Influentia...

Apple Music can be messy to navigate when you're switching between the playlists, free radio stations and your own music library. But it may soon get a makeover.Bloomberg reports Apple is working on a redesign to unveil at the June Worldwide Developer's Conference, known as WWDC. But Apple Music isn't the only streaming service getting a new look. CNET Update has the details, along with news on Hulu's live-TV plans: Also in this roundup, lea how to easily add animated GIFs to your text messages with the Giphy Keys app. (And that's Giphy with a hard-"G," thank you very much.)CNET Update delivers the tech news you need in under 3 minutes. Watch Bridget Carey every afteoon for a breakdown of th...

Nobody wants to buy music anymore. That's why the streaming music scene is such a big battlefield right now.What does a streaming music service have to do to stick out? The same thing that Netflix, HBO, Hulu and Amazon do in video realm: focus on producing must-have content that you can't get anywhere else. Apple Music and Tidal are trying similar approaches, exclusively releasing records by some of the most popular musicians in the business. Somehow Tidal, the Jay Z-owned underdog with 3 million subscribers, has done a far better job at manufacturing a spectacle around the latest records from its coup of superstar co-owners, but it hasn't exactly come out a wier.After accidentally leaking i...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Taylor Swift is an artful lip-syncer. Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET If there's one thing Taylor Swift fans can't get enough of, I suspect, it's Taylor Swift lip-syncing in a video.So Apple Music on Monday released a new ad in which the powerful star lip-syncs and doesn't even bother offering some humor by falling over.The latter is what she did in her first foray for Apple Music. People laughed.However, in the new ad she is going out for the evening and therefore needs music to prepare for such an unusual event.So she chooses "The Middle" by Jimmy Eat World, released circa 2001.Is...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.He's so seductive. But is Apple TV? Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Actors are thinkers. Even those who appear in painfully tedious TV shows like "Game Of Thrones." Or, as one of its stars Ian McShane calls it: "T*** and Dragons."Apple clearly wants to help the world's thespians. A new Apple TV ad features Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. You might know him better as the notably incestuous Jaime Lanister. We see him on a sofa with Alison Brie, who many might remember from "Mad Men," where she played Trudy Campbell, the wife who tried and failed to tolerate her husband, Pete. Brie and Coster-W...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.He's so seductive. But is Apple TV? Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Actors are thinkers. Even those who appear in painfully tedious TV shows like "Game Of Thrones." Or, as one of its stars Ian McShane calls it: "T*** and Dragons."Apple clearly wants to help the world's thespians. A new Apple TV ad features Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. You might know him better as the notably incestuous Jaime Lanister. We see him on a sofa with Alison Brie, who many might remember from "Mad Men," where she played Trudy Campbell, the wife who tried and failed to tolerate her husband, Pete. Brie and Coster-W...

Enlarge ImageApple Music's rapid rise may be putting pressure on its competitors. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple Music may be the new kid on the block, but it appears to have the right stuff.Apple's new streaming-music service has more than 11 million subscribers, according to Apple executives Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi. The two revealed the milestone, along with several other Apple tidbits, on an episode of John Gruber's podcast "The Talk Show" published Friday. Apple also confirmed the updated subscriber number in an email.Streaming music has exploded in popularity in recent years, with Apple working hard to catch up. Its $10-a-month service reportedly topped 10 million paying subscribers in the f...

Enlarge ImageApple Music's rapid rise may be putting pressure on its competitors. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple Music may be the new kid on the block, but it appears to have the right stuff.Apple's new music-streaming service has more than 11 million subscribers, according to Apple's Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi. The executives revealed the milestone, along with several other Apple tidbits, on an episode of John Gruber's podcast "The Talk Show" published Friday. Apple also confirmed the updated subscriber number in an email.Streaming music has exploded in popularity in recent years, with Apple working hard to catch up. The $10-a-month service reportedly topped 10 million paying subscribers in its fir...