The good, the bad and the different Apple Music – FORTUNE

SAN FRANCISCO (CNNExpansión) – Before a Moscone Center full of young developers, Apple unveiled its streaming music service, Apple Music.

While the system could represent the next big player in this market by the volume of users who already have iTunes, a must see piece by piece.

CNNExpansión could interact with Apple Music, here dissect the good, the bad and different from this new service.

The good

Market captive

Having the business side, Apple has an advantage over its competitors, as iTunes has 800 million accounts, which used to account for its services, banked and you can migrate to Apple Music easily without entering a different catalog market.

Free version, for three months

Like other services, Apple Music can be heard for free, but with limitations. It will replace the Music application on devices.

The function of Radio, called Beats1, which functions as a global station programs, interviews and commentaries will also be free without limited time.

If you want to listen to any song in streaming and access to the entire iTunes catalog online, you must be a subscriber.

Local Content

Experts behind the Apple product commented that the content of stations recommended and genres to choose will be nurtured with local options depending on the country or the region. In Mexico will be in Spanish from rock to country music.

Multidevice and platform

The service will operate on Macs, iPad, iPhone and even smart iWatch watch. Apple Music come to the Android version later this same 2015 and is also available on Windows computers.

The bad

Radio remote

Although Beats1 can be heard throughout the world, its Content is transmitted only from three cities: New York, London and Los Angeles.

If you have no card, you can not hear

In order to have an account with Apple Music it is necessary to have a bank card, because it will tied to the Apple ID account and are required to pay the monthly subscription fee of $ 9.99. So far it is not known whether there will be option prepaid card.

Do not be in Spanish

Although Apple said that in the future be interested in opening their service to other languages ​​natively, experts said that for the moment It will be launched only in English but with local content.

What is different

Price family

Apple Music has a familiar version that you can connect up to six people for $ 14.99. It has the same service Spotify, but includes up to five people at a cost of $ 29.99.

Artists without labels

Unlike other systems where the artist streaming requires an aggregate upload your music system, Music allows the artist raise the song directly to Connect and communicate with their fans without intermediaries. The artist can share from a tweet to a new song with his followers. Apple experts categorize it as a promotion path that eventually leads to the purchase, after the testing process.

Curated without machines

Unlike other music systems such recommendations and curatorship Music does not make an algorithm but a team of curators and editors who choose music genres and listening patterns suggesting customer to be more effective.