When Apple bought Beats Electronics and all the companies associated with the brand in 2014, the Cupertino-based company, not only bought one more company, but also Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, two of the most influential people on the music scene in recent years, especially Jimmy Iovine.
Iovine, became part of the Apple staff as the head of Apple's future streaming music service, which allowed him in just one year, open your own music streaming service, a year after buying Beats Music. It is very likely that without Iovine, Apple would have taken much longer to release Apple Music.
A few months ago we did not echo a news item in which it was stated that Iovine could leave the company this coming August, a news that the interested party was in charge of denying, but without clarifying whether his position in the company would be affected in any way. moment. According to The Wall Street Journal, Iovine will not leave the company in August, as confirmed by the interested party, but rather their role will become less relevant within the company.
This movement confirms that Iovine, He has already done all the work he had to do since he joined the Apple staff And as of August, he will cease to be one of the top managers of Apple Music, a position that will have to find a new replacement or will fall to Eddy Cue, direct boss of Jimmy Iovine so far, since the work that had to be done Even turning Apple's streaming music platform into a success has already been done, and quite successfully indeed, since today it has 38 million subscribers.