Earlier this year, two months after Apple's purchase of Shazam was announced, the European Union announced that was investigating the latest acquisition of the Cupertino-based company. The problem, as is usual in these cases, is whether it could affect the competition, since Apple could prioritize its music service to the detriment of the rest.
Since Apple acquired this music recognition service through our smartphone, although it is also available for computers, the Cupertino-based company you have not made any changes to the application to put aside the rest of the music service where you can find the songs that the application recognizes, so the European Union has given the green light to the purchase.
In addition, another of the problems that Apple could face, we found it in the privileged position of this service, a service that we remember is not unique, since in the market we can find excellent alternatives with more features than Shazam, but like WhatsApp, it was the first to arrive and in most cases, that means succeeding and staying as a reference For the users.
Apple, as usual, He has not disclosed the plans he has with this company, although it is more than likely that they will go through the song detection algorithm to be able to implement it in Siri, in order to improve the number of functions it offers today.
For some time now, since the European Union will not bother to block the purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook (allowing a gigantic monopoly) it seems that the European institutions have put the batteries and are continually awaiting any movement of this type that may affect competition so as not to repeat the ridicule they made by allowing the purchase of WhatsApp.