Tim Cook: "Apple Music on Android is just the beginning"

When Apple introduced its first application in the Play Store, in order to facilitate the migration of users from Android to iOS, App reviews were quickly filled with negative reviews of users who had not even tried it but who felt like a kick in the stomach of the Android community. Now it turns out that Google does not have more than a score of applications in the App Store.

Several months later, he launched the first specific application for Android users can enjoy Apple servicesWe are talking about Apple Music, which has recently been updated giving Android users the option to download the songs to the device's SD card.

But according to the words Tim Cook spoke yesterday in an interview, the Cupertino-based guys intend to bring a large number of applications to the rival operating system, so that they can also enjoy all the services that Apple currently offers only to users of its products. According to these statements, it is likely that Android users will soon be able to use iCloud or Apple Pay on their devices.

It is clear that companies are realizing that limiting your services to a single platform is like shooting yourself in the foot. By limiting the possibilities of expansion, you greatly limit the growth of a service in addition to the income that it can generate. Fortunately since Cook's arrival at the position of CEO of the company, Jobs' primitive ideas about the Android ecosystem have been put aside, as have other aspects such as the size of the screen of the devices.

Clear examples of companies that have opened up to other ecosystems we found it in Samsung, which fortunately will launch an application for iOS and Android shortly to allow users who want to buy the new Gear S2, managed by Tizen, to do so regardless of the operating system used, even if it has its limitations.

Microsoft is another clear example in this regard. In recent times the Redmond are launching a large number of applications for iOS and Android sometimes to the detriment of their own Windows 10 Mobile platform, in an attempt to gain a greater number of users for their services instead of focusing solely on their platform.

As to when new services may become available, Tim Cook was unable to reply. The arrival of Apple Pay to Android would be a good boost for this platform worldwide by the protection it offers to users. Accessing iCloud storage can be a good plus too. But will Apple dare to launch iMessage on Android to become yet another messaging application? And FaceTime? Time will tell. Hopefully it won't take long.