Everything you need to know about Apple Music

All in four paragraphs

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Here's everything you need to know, in four paragraphs:

"Apple has finally jumped into the music streaming race," said Ben Popper and Micah Singleton at The Verge. The tech giant this week unveiled Apple Music, its long-awaited streaming service, which offers users access to Apple's catalog of more than 30 million songs for $9.99 a month (or $14.99 for a family plan of up to six people). Subscribers can also download songs for offline listening, create their own playlists, access special content from artists, and tune in to celebrity-curated internet radio stations. If those features sound a lot like what you can already get with Spotify, Pandora, or Rdio, it's because they are, said Joshua Topolsky at Bloomberg. This is a vintage Apple move: "Take what the competition is doing" and make it your own. After all, the company didn't invent the MP3 player, but its iPod changed the music industry.

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