Will Amazon undercut its own Prime video service?
Amazon was said back in March to be working on a free streaming service, though the bookseller staunchly denied it at the time.
Now those rumors have been reignited thanks to a new report from the New York Post.
The site says Amazon will launch a free, ad-supported video streaming service early in 2015.
The service will reportedly be completely separate from Amazon Prime.
The Post spoke with "ad sources" who are allegedly in talks with Amazon about the service, one of whom said it will be designed to ultimately "lure" users into paying for Prime subscriptions.
And unlike when Amazon was reportedly considering this move in March, it's now "a definite go," the site says.
For now Amazon is remaining mum on this one, so it sounds like we'll probably have to wait until next year to find out for sure.
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Beats Music will reportedly come part and parcel with iOS
Friday, November 21, 2014
iTunes is a dinosaur, but Beats may be just what it needs The Beats Music streaming service will reportedly join the likes of Newsstand, Maps and Stocks as a default iOS app next year.
Apple acquired Beats in May, and although they've yet to do anything meaningful with the brand just yet that will soon change, reports the Financial Times.
Beats Music will be bundled with an upcoming iOS update as early as March, the site says.
Apple hasn't made any official statements on its plans for Beats Music, but iTunes sales slowed this year and it's clear that the iPhone maker is plotting something.
Word in October was Apple will merge Beats Music with iTunes, which already offers limited streaming music with iTunes Radio, and the FT agrees that that's likely.
In addition Apple has reportedly been courting record labels in an effort to slash the streaming music subscription price in half to just $5 (about £3.20, AU$5.80) a month.
Via 9to5MaciPad Pro release reportedly on track for 2015
Monday, September 1, 2014
A little more iPad never hurt anybody It's been months since we heard anything about the rumored iPad Pro, but that doesn't mean Apple's forgotten about the larger-and-in-charge tablet.
In fact the 12.9-inch iPad Pro is well on its way to a 2015 release date, according to Bloomberg.
The site got its info from those infamous "people with knowledge of the matter," who said the biggest-ever iPad will go intro production early next year.
They added the massive iPad, three inches larger than the current iPad Air, has been in the works for at least a year.
Apple already sized the iPad down and made the excellent iPad mini, so why not go the other direction?
That's what they're doing with the iPhone 6. Every report we've seen for months - including this one from Bloomberg - seems to agree the iPhone is puffing itself up.
Unsurprisingly the site's sources also said the iPad mini 3 and iPad Air 2 will be out in time for the 2014 holidays, which will no doubt help iPad sales that have reportedly been down for two quarters in a row.
Meanwhile Apple's recent partnership with IBM looks like it could be intended to pave the way for the introduction of the iPad Pro.
No doubt we'll learn more as Apple is due for some September announcements shortly.
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