The international expansion of Apple services is usually slower than normal and as an example we have the slowness with which Apple Pay is reaching more countries and the information on public transport, which the company presented in last year's keynote, that today it is only found in little more than 10 cities but we take into account the thirty Chinese cities where this information is available since the launch of iOS 9.
On the other hand we have the international expansion of Apple Music, the streaming music service that the company presented in the same keynote last year and that hit the market at the end of July, with a free period of three months. Apple Music reached directly to a large number of countries and since then it already has a broad base of 15 million users.
Despite being available in almost 100 countries, Apple Music has yet to reach Samsung territory, Korea, where the company has tried several times to reach an agreement without success due to existing strict copyright laws, in addition to the demands of Korean record companies and musician associations. But it appears that the Cupertino-based company is close to a deal and in the coming weeks Apple's music streaming service could finally land in South Korea.
The publication The Korea Herald, who has published this information, states that there is no date set for the launch yet, but negotiations between both parties are well advanced. One of the novelties related to Apple Music that we could see in the last keynote, is related to the renewal that the Apple Music application will receive with the arrival of iOS 10, a long-awaited renewal by users who since their arrival have always stated that their use It is very complicated and confusing compared to the application of the maximum rival Spotify.