Mr. Cue also revealed that of that sum 2 million have selected the family plan at $14.99 a month for up to 6 people. The real question is how many Apple customers will decide to pay for the music streaming service once the free trial has run its course? The music service offers...
If Apple converts all trial users into subscribers, in just three months Apple Music will have half as many users as Spotify has managed to reach in seven years.
Of those 11 million, about 2 million have taken the $15-per-month “family plan”, which allows access to up to six users, Apple SVP Internet software and services Eddie Cue said in an interview with USA Today.
Apple Music already pays artists higher royalties than fellow streaming sites like Spotify – which Swift has pulled her music from – because there is no free model. The service is to start June 30. The 25-year-old singer demanded that the multinational technology...