iTunes Radio ends broadcasts

Before the end of the year, in Soy de Mac We inform you of Apple's intentions to end the service that iTunes sRadio was offering in some countries until now. Well, that day has arrived and iTunes Radio has stopped working. All users who try to access the service will see an invitation to Apple Music appear on their device screen. From this moment, the only free music content that Apple offers is the Beats 1 station. It should be remembered that Beats 1 is like a traditional station, where the DJ on duty plays the music that he likes the most.

At the moment we can only enjoy Beats 1, but Apple intends to initially offer six new stations of music, stations that at the moment we do not know what kind of music or programming they will have. The closure of iTunes Radio was inevitable, two streaming music services cannot coexist under the same roof if Apple's intention is to derive all its efforts to this new platform.

At the moment Apple Music, according to the latest unofficial figures, has almost 10 million paying subscribersIt should be remembered that Apple Music does not have a free mode. We could say that it is from now on when Apple has to fight with the rest of music services such as Spotify and Pandora, since the free period in China has just ended, where it began at the end of September.

It should be remembered that iTunes Radio came to the market with the intention of offer a streaming radio system around the world, but that finally it did not finish expanding, we do not know if by the intention of offering Apple Music or because it never finished being a service that woke up the interest of the people.