Tim Cook attended the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference, which is essentially a spiritual successor to AllThingsD, and revealed some interesting details not only about the newly released products, but also how the service is doing Apple Music and surprisingly also revealed the date when the sale of the new one will start Apple TV The 4th generation, which brings a large number of novelties. Director Cook announced that the new Apple TV will go on sale on October 26, 2015, next Monday. However, the company will deliver the ordered pieces to you later that week. You can read more about this in a separate article Apple will launch new pre-orders Apple TV 2015 already on Monday.
Information about the number of subscribers is also interesting Apple Music. Here it is Tim Cook praised that the service currently has 6,5 million paying users and 15 million subscribers in total. But while pri Apple Music happy to share the numbers, u Apple Watch already had Cook problems and answered evasively: "We don't announce the numbers. This is information for the competition. I don't want to help him. We sold a lot of units during the first quarter and we sold even more during the last quarter. And I think we will sell even more this quarter.” So it's possible that the watch really isn't doing as well as you are Apple represented? It is possible. And what direction will the development of smart watches take? Apple wants to develop mainly health and fitness functions Apple Watch, as these are the two aspects that people love: "From a health perspective, we have big plans." There was also the question of whether Apple Watch they will ever be independent from the iPhone, but competitors like the Samsung Gear S2 are also available in 3G versions with a built-in eSIM card and you can use them to make calls and respond to notifications even when you don't have a mobile at hand, which is especially useful if you're going somewhere where you don't want to be disturbed by constant smartphone notifications. He is also planning something Apple? "I won't tell you," said Cook.
Tim Cook eventually received questions about the automotive industry. Of course, Cook wouldn't just announce that his company is working on a car. However, his comments were definitely interesting. He says that software is becoming an increasingly important part of cars, and autonomous driving is also becoming important: "It looks like there are going to be big changes here. We want people in the car to have the same experience of using the software as on iPhone. We look at a lot of things. Our plan is to reduce this list to less. We'll see what we do in the future. But I think that the automotive market has reached a point where a huge change needs to be made, not just an evolutionary change."
Apple Music? I only canceled it because this service messed up some albums from my long-maintained iTunes Match library. I'm still putting it back in order. If it could be used outside the iTunes Match library as a solo service, I would go for it again. But just for listening, I would have changed my mind a lot about adding something to my long-standing library.
Jan Becher: I have no problems with her. That is, except for one album, The Wall.
@JM: The service as a whole is definitely good for those who don't have iTunes Match, and in time everything will be OK for everyone. I'll give an example of what happened to me with about 10 albums. For example, I had editions of band albums in iTunes Match. Then I downloaded from Apple Music e.g. BEST OF of the same group. I had some albums from BEST OF before in the editions in ITM. When I Apple Music removed the BEST OF, so the songs from the edition albums that were in the deleted selection were also deleted. In addition, the covers of some songs in the editions from last year in iTunes Match were accidentally replaced, so one album had 3 different covers at once...
How would the number of sales help the competition?