Apple announces its Apple Music has reached the milestone of 11 million paid subscribers. On John Gruber’s The Talk Show podcast two of its executives, Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue, said the streaming service is growing at a fast rate.
Apple Music was launched in June 2015 and 11 million paid subscribers in such a short period is highly impressive for the iDevice giant. In January the Financial Times reported the service has reached 10 million paid subscribers.
Apple Music is also available on Android platform along with iOS mobile operating system.
Spotify is the main rival and it took about six years to reach where Apple Music is today. However, the revenue model of the two differ as Apple just offer three months of free trial to users and beyond it pushes for paid subscription, which is $9.99 a month.
The Apple executives also confirmed the iCloud now has 782 million users and over 200,000 iMessages are sent every second. Also, 750 million transactions are made on iTunes and the App Store per week.
Details of the Talk Show are published on Daring Fireball. Until now it was uncommon for Apple executives to talk about numbers.
Federighi said, “I take it extraordinarily significantly when a buyer is just not having the good expertise they need to. I know our core software program high quality has improved during the last 5 years.”
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