Apple Music is Apple's streaming music service which emerged from Beats Music and was officially unveiled in 2015.
Since that June 2015, the service has grown in an incredible way. In addition, it is a service available not only for iOS, but also for Android.
After financial results Apple introduced yesterday, we know that has reached 50 million subscribers in December 2018Obviously, paid, as there is no free subscription as in other services such as Spotify.
However, This number sounds familiar to us, as they said something similar in May 2018. Specifically, Tim Cook (CEO of Apple), stated in an interview with Bloomberg that Apple Music had more than 50 million paid subscribers or in a free trial period.
On this occasion, confirm that refers only to paid subscribers and not to subscribers who are in the free trial period. So the final result, counting users in free trial periods, will be even higher.
This number of 50 million users paying per month for the Apple Music service, without a doubt it has been one of the strong points of the so important increase of the sector of "Services" in the income of Apple This last quarter they have supposed record profits for Apple services.
We also know the number of Spotify paying subscribers as of December 2018, about 87 million Premium subscribers. Those users of the free version of Spotify are not taken into account.
Thus, although Apple Music shortens distances, the truth is that both companies grow in number of users and have a very large number of subscribers.
On the other hand, we must not forget the streaming video service that is to come from Apple, as well as the new rumor of a game-on-demand service, which could join in the same subscription and help increase the number of Apple Music users.
