Apple Buys UK Startup Behind Musicmetric to Add Analytics to Beats

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/21/apple-musicmetric/

by rivella • 12 years ago

15 9 12 years ago

k-mcgrady3• 12 years ago

Good idea considering Spotify has a deal in place with Next Big Sound (although it also gives stats on how your social media accounts are performing).

beedogs• 12 years ago

I'm still not sold on this whole Beats acquisition. It seems like a mid-1990s Microsoft play.

k-mcgrady3• 12 years ago

> "I'm still not sold on this whole Beats acquisition."

Why not? They need a streaming service (iTunes Radio isn't good enough) and Beats is IMO the best one out there. Plus if the streaming service doesn't work out they're still covered as they've purchased an incredibly successful hardware company and brand. They'll make the acquisition cost back in sales pretty quickly.

allsystemsgo• 12 years ago

Beats is alright, but the user experience is absolutely awful. Music is poorly organized. The sentence thing in the app is kind of a gimmick. It's great if you're fine with just turning on some sort of music that's somewhat similar to what you're wanting to listen to, and then forgetting about it. If you want to amass a collection of specific songs you like, spotify is the way to go. Beats' web interface is terrible. I logged in with Twitter, and I had to login every single time I went to the site. I tried it for a month, and I missed having the desktop application that spotify offers.

simonh• 12 years ago

Apple has a reasonable track record with selective acquisitions like this, but they bought App search company Chomp* back in 2012. Over 2 years later the App Store search and navigation system is still painfully bad, so I'll believe this will make a difference when I see it.

* http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/apple-acquires-app-sear...

smackfu• 12 years ago

They did actually integrate Chomp into the App Store. Just turned out everyone hated it.

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/30/apple-adds-chomp-styled-...

calvin_c• 12 years ago

Chomp was much more than the results interface though. There were filters and suggested alternatives to make your queries more specific. The closes the official App Store has come to this is the Trending Apps section in iOS 8, which still doesn't help me find apps I'm specifically looking for but don't come up in the first half dozen results of a search.

corford• 12 years ago

I wondered when this news would break. Congrats to everyone at Semetric :)

Apple Buys UK Startup Behind Musicmetric to Add Analytics to Beats

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