The first major Android app made by Apple engineers is finally ready for primetime.
Coming over a year after the launch of Apple Music on iOS, Apple released the first non-beta version of Apple Music on the Google Play Store today and it comes with a couple new features.
Now that the beta tag has been removed from Apple Music for Android, listeners now get access to equalizer settings. The release notes also mention that a number of “performance, playback, and stability improvements” have been added.
The free app is Apple’s third official app on Android, though the other two (Move to iOS and the Beats Pill app) were much smaller efforts. Apple Music for Android was unveiled in November of 2015, giving users on Google’s platform a taste of what software is like on iPhone.
A number of new features were added to Apple Music for Android during the beta testing phase. Family billing plans, music videos and a homescreen widget now bring it closer to the iOS version’s level, providing a seamless experience that can truly rival Spotify.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
9 responses to “Apple Music for Android is finally out of beta”
Anybody else find that all their beta problems are fixed but that iMessage effects, bubbles, invisible ink, handwriting etc. have gone?
Apple Music on Android? .. I guess it is like they say – ‘if you can’t beat them, make them join you’..
‘if you can’t beat them… Beat who ? Google Music ?
Apple would have preferred Android users to buy iPhones and use Apple Music on iOS. But getting Android users to use Apple Music may be a good way to introduce Apple to them and perhaps increase conversion rates. Google doesn’t provide subscriber numbers so would not know if this impacts them.
Puhleaze……do you honestly beleive a person is going to switch from Android to iOS because of a crappy streaming music service?
I also don’t believe the rhetoric about highest rates ever of switchers.
Not when Android Share is growing at the expense of iOS shrinking.
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It is spelled ‘please’. And ‘beleive’, is ‘believe’. Remember ‘i before e’..
And I certainly don’t expect or want ‘you’ to switch.
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Don’t need this garbage on my Android phone. No thanks Apple.