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Here's master plan of Dr.dre beats: iTunes address front

posted by superlifeservice
Sun, 01/08/2012 - 10:18pm

Here's master plan of Dr.dre beats: iTunes address front

At it a few weeks ago Dr.dre beats (beats by dre ),streaming startup European music, came in severe criticism when he took the decision to place strict limits on the music that you could listen to for free. He had a financial sense, but left us wondering where its strategy would. May 4 revealed the next piece of the puzzle, and it's a bold move: a new version that allows - for music, at least a direct competitor of Apple (AAPL) iTunes. That is what you get from the new app - it improved? Management and synchronization: until now, Dr.dre beats (cheap dre beats) users (like me) have led their Office listening to soft, but still had to juggle the music on their iPod via iTunes. No more. The new client allows you to manage music on an iPod. The system also works for Android. Download Service: Dr.dre beats ( beats by dre studio) has offered you the chance to buy tracks for some time, but it was a piecemeal, in white mark of services where users could purchase a single track at a time. Now, it is a simple shopping system, which allows people to buy playlists of MP3 files with a single click and synchronize them directly to their music player. The base prices seem to be a little higher than iTunes, but tracks you buy cheaper it gets: at the United Kingdom, for example, a package of 10 tracks will cost £ 7.99 ($13.16), but 100 tracks will cost £ 50 ($82,38). For all mobile applications: Dr.dre beats Mobile is a feature that Premium subscribers have only had access in the past, their monthly fee allows them to listen to the music of their phone, and not only their computer. Now, with improved purchase options, all users (even those who do not pay to subscribe to additional services of Dr.dre beats) be able to download the mobile application and use it to listen to the pieces they have purchased. Users not paying are always not get music streaming on their phones, however. It is a strong line of the attack of Swedish, and not entirely expected start: most of the reports focused on how she was fishing to enter the US market, especially since that he has a Treasury of substantial war after having raised $ 100 million. But we do not claim that in doing so, Dr.dre beats is break completely new ground: he is certainly not the first company to attempt to provide an alternative to iTunes. Among the other attempt to compete directly with iTunes is DoubleTwist, a startup in San Francisco that happened big guns. However, it is one of the most direct games against Apple that we saw. Dr.dre beats (dre beats) has a different direction than most competing platforms of synchronization, because it is to start with a solid foundation in music and a million subscribers. It ya still many weaknesses: it does not have a U.S. service (some have suggested that Apple is an influence on the record labels to thwart Dr.dre beats in America) there is still poor on the process of discovery music service is excellent. If you know what you want to listen to, but if you are looking for a radio-type service, it has a long way to go.And, if we are comparing it to iTunes, it remains that the music is (co - founder Daniel Ek recently denied reports that the company was considering to launch a streaming movies service). But it will be certainly interesting to see what Apple does in response. While Dr.dre beats is Amazon (AMZN), it poses a greater threat to Cupertino that most of the other players out there. Apple has a roadmap to change its software regularly to try to prevent a third-party iPod synchronization, so it is likely to maintain the Swedish company on his toes. And I suspect that it may also encourage Steve Jobs to demand that its engineers to rebuild iTunes and turn it into something better, it is, after all, an inflated piece and more confusing software which is essentially just a mish-mash of different products has slammed into one. In terms of ease of use (cheap beats by dre ), iTunes is about at least the Apple-like piece of software it produces.