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Sunday, November 15, 2015

Apple Plans to Shut Down Beats Music


Everyone these days is well familiar with Apple.  I would be willing to bet that everyone that reads this owns an Apple product if not two.  This powerhouse of a company has a complete monopoly and essentially has control of the majority of that market.  Apple finds ways to continue to keep sucking our money away, with so called "improvements" and "upgrades."

Recently, it has been announced that Apple is going to shut down it's very popular Beats Music service that has gained so much popularity.  Can anyone guess why they're doing this?  Oh yeah, for money of course.  This Beats shutdown is taking place in efforts to push more and more users to the up and coming Apple Music service, hoping to take even more of our money.  Back in October Apple Music had 15 million subscribers, but they are looking to expand to around 100 million.  Last May, Apple purchased Beats for around 3 million, and we are finally coming to see what the ultimate goal of this purchase was, an attempt to reel in more revenue to Apple.

By: Cole Dolan

Snyder, Benjamin. "Apple Shutting Down Beats to Push Users to Apple Music." Time. Time, 13 Nov. 2015. Web. 15 Nov. 2015.

3 comments:

  1. As I think about it I realize that Apple is becoming like a monopoly. I don't know anyone I know that doesn't own an Apple product. The fact that they are shutting down Beats Music is ridiculous. I meant there already earning plenty of money from product sales and Apple music but yet there thirst for more money is still strong.

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    2. Thank you for your comment, it's really amazing how apple is making moves to completely take over the industry, shutting down their competition to reel in more money.

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