14 DAY TRIAL // Beats was invited to be part of the family so more and more apps, products and services are promoted each day. Now the Beats Music App is being pushed as an Apple Free app along with the iWork and iLife suite for iOS.
According to a 9to5mac reader, the splash screen appears to the new iOS users. The panel shows Apple's own apps and the user is invited to get the most out of his iPad and download free apps. Among those, you can get Pages, Keynote, iMovie, iBooks, Podcasts and Find my friends. Beats Music app is the newest addition even though Apple did not develop the app in the first place.
Beats Music app is described as a way to listen to music that's always right for you. This is a free universal app that works on iPad and iPhone. Its creators say that it combines a streaming service with top tier music experts and premium technology. All you have to do is hit play.
Actually, you first have to buy a Beats Music Subscription that costs $9.99 (€7.49) per month or $99.99 (€74.94) for the whole year. After that, you can get unlimited, ad-free access to over 20 million songs from every genre. You can either listen online or download your favorites for offline listening.
The Beats Music app is not just a streaming service. You can play with features like "The Sentence" where you're telling the app where you are, how you feel, and who is with you and what kind of music you want to listen to, and then you get a personalized playlist. Another choice would be to discover music highlights – tracks that are worth checking out even if they are not on your preferences list.
You can try the Beats Music app for 14 days, no strings attached, but there is no way to use it outside the United States. This is not a choice you have to make in the settings, nor is it based on your phone number or iTunes account. The app detects your location even if you do not specifically let it use your location settings, and it just tells you that you cannot use it.
Other than that, the app's design does not fit in the Apple grid. It is mostly dark, with big buttons and large picture backgrounds. It also is a direct competitor of existing Apple products like iTunes Match and iTunes Radio, but this doesn't seem to stop Apple from promoting it. After all, the money will be getting into their accounts now.